The problem that most of the reviews are missing. The idea that a Wireless Access Point is a totally different thing that a Router that is totally different than a Firewall.
In an industrial environmen, each one of those would be in a separate device. You don't see any Cisco routers that have the wireless antenna attached to it. It sits as an edge device between the internal LAN and the internet on the outside. Likewise, a firewall sits between the router and your network switch. Any traffic that has to go outside the switched LAN must pass through your firewall so that any blocking or policy rules can be applied. Any traffic comming in from the internet must also pass through the firewall so that unwanted packets and spoofing can be dropped and only stateful valid packets that match open port requests from compters inside your network make it in. The Wireless network falls at the network switch level.
Now for home users, they like to put all that into a single box. They take the barest of minimal design and work on the theory that a home network would not want to be hacked so they just protect against the most basic of intrusion protection.
take a read of
https://www.tomsguide.com/us/home-router-security,news-19245.html
https://www.techworld.com/tutorial/secur...ys-out-3609122/https://arstechnica.com/information-tech...exploited-flaw/So that is why I am left asking the quetion. Am I far better off to break the mold in the way I have been doing things and move to a more industreal corporate model with the router doing just that.. routing. And have a dedicated firewall box that does the internet protecting of my network that sits behind it. then put in the wireless network part connected to the switch that doesn't to anything other than add a wireless access point to the local switch.
