12-19-2002, 06:48 AM
Nah, it won't speed up your connection - whether those packets get to your computer or not, they're still coming down the pipe, clogging your bandwidth. Mainly I was bitching about how OO should start blocking that shit - BUT - the reason I said get a firewall is, if that much shit is coming straight through, not blocked by your ISP, imagine what other, possibly malicious garbage is coming through without you even knowing it....
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avoid at all costs
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