[vishnu]

I have a Broadcom wireless antennae in my firewall computer, but I don't use it.

It's not that I don't like routers, I've never used one. Maybe there are some good ones that are actually secure. If there are, I've never heard of one. On my firewall, which as I'm so fond of repeating myself, I'll say again, is just a PC running Linux, with a kernel that I configured and compiled myself, and the firewall is IPTables, with a configuration script that I wrote myself. With a commercial router, what do you get? Some sort of a micro-Linux kernel and a firewall that their software engineers think will keep your LAN safe from intrusion. I call bullshit on that. Commercial routers, like any other commodity product, are designed and built for one thing, to make their manufacturers money. So even if there are software engineers working for the company that think more needs to be done to create a secure product, money money money. So when some monumental security flaw is found in any given router, which has happened thousands of times, the manufacturers are like, "Oh really? That's too bad. Let's sell some more crap routers and see how much more money we can make." Just my opinion, other opinions may vary (but they'd be wrong). 😆