We pay more for everything. Prices are around three times cheaper in France which is not that far away. I don't use the windows firewall cause I know how bad it is. Also I don't think there bad a programming they just realise that a. most people won't know the difference and b. McAfee et al will start to get annoyed.

Also there's a chance of exploiting any firewall, router based or not.

Which is presumely why you have two firewalls.

I going to play with the EciAdsl stuff when I get a chance to see if I can the modem running with Knoppix i'm Bit Torrenting Suse at the moment. Anyway thank you for your time.