Giveaway/Contest 30: AlphaShield Pro Hardware Firewall

[3dGameMan]

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Winner is: slugbug

Please forward your complete address information to me, gameman@3dgameman.com

Congrats to the winner(s) :) To everyone who didn't win, there will be another new contest next month :Thumb

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VoyeurMods (http://www.VoyeurMods.com) and 3dGameMan teams up to bring you Giveaway/Contest 30: AlphaShield Pro Hardware Firewall

Sponsored product(s): AlphaShield Pro Hardware Firewall (http://www.3dgameman.com/content/view/2462/42/)

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- There will be one (1) winner.
- Winners have 7 days to claim their prizes.
- Products will be shipped by the sponsor(s). Please allow 2-4 weeks for delivery.
- Winners will be drawn on Aug. 31, 2006

[Das Capitolin]

Rodney sure gets down to business! Contest 30 was born mere minutes after contest 29 expired.

Another great prize on the line, and thank you for the contests!

Count me in for contest #30! :Beer

[DragonMaster]

I'm in, an other sweet prize from 3GM!

Do we have to send anything in our e-mail?

[JesterX]

Yet another contest!
Count me in

[werty316]

I am down of course.

[slugbug]

down on my luck, but I'll give it a shot

[SAMSAMHA]

awesome prize, man, i hope I am lucky enoughl.

[Traffy]

Wow that"s Sweet I"m in!!

[WicKeDcHilD]

nice, Sign me up :)

[WicKeDcHilD]

heh right on the limit :p

[Enigmachine]

For some reason I don't think I'll ever win on 3GM... But I want to keep trying. :) That's half the fun right? :)

Congrats to Rod for the great contests and to the AlphaShield guys who are obviously smart enough to know this is a brilliant marketing strategy. Especially if I win. :)



Ok, gotta jump through the hoops now, ta!

[Lothar286a]

I'm in for this one. Looks like fun stuff.

And why would anyone vote no? :Nope

[Saturn2888]

Wow, I'm actually not gonna participate... This is cool! :) I'll be at the sidelines.

Hey, just so you know, you won't win for a while unless you're that lucky. I mean, I won my first on in Jan. '05. and I joined 2 years prior, so don't worry about it.

[johndoe]

awesome contest! sign me up please :food

[tomato]

Count me in as well ;)

[liqnit]

another great giveaway!!
im in

[Saturn2888]

For a second there I thought those were all the same people, ha ha ha! So it seems that not many ppl want a Firewall. I would just get one for kicks bc I kinda have a bunch of random stuff, but naw.

[DragonMaster]

I'd find it useful, to stop using SELinux intensively and the old 2003 Kerio Personal Firewall

[Kindom934]

Wow, I'm actually not gonna participate... This is cool! :) I'll be at the sidelines.

Hey, just so you know, you won't win for a while unless you're that lucky. I mean, I won my first on in Jan. '05. and I joined 2 years prior, so don't worry about it.

Heh....Hardware firewall?

Nice...but.....ehhh....Uhh....we all could use this...er....I'll decided wither or not to go in.

[Saturn2888]

Heh. You just wanna finally join another giveaway eh? What was the last one you did bc I know you didn't do 29.

[RogueMuppet]

Looks like a nice lil unit,, would be even nicer if I had it.

[Kindom934]

Heh. You just wanna finally join another giveaway eh? What was the last one you did bc I know you didn't do 29.

I can't decide...eeh...I might just watch like what I did in #29.

[Saturn2888]

Ha ha ha ha, well at least some of us big posters aren't competing. That's gonna raise some chances.

[johndoe]

actually, i was so bloody fed up of the latest version of ZA Pro (6.5.x) cuz it kept crashing that I switched to a prior version 6.1, then this contest came up and i thought why not give a hardware f/w a shot :KICKASS

[Saturn2888]

Well at least you use one. I see no need really.

[DragonMaster]

Well at least you use one. I see no need really.

Software or hardware firewall IMO would be like asking software or hardware sound? Video? A firewall is a program more running in the background!

[Saturn2888]

Well I don't use one period. They're worthless. My router provides a sufficient ultra stealth thingy if I'm not DMZ host.

[DragonMaster]

My router provides a sufficient ultra stealth thingy if I'm not DMZ host.

I forgot about that firewall ;) (Router)

But it can be useful for some unsafe routers (Older ones that aren't upgraded, unsolved problems like with D-Link, etc.)

[Saturn2888]

What about D-Link? I have the VPN one so it'd be good to know what's up w/ the Firewall.

[DragonMaster]

I don't know if it's also a firewall problem, but there's a problem with all their router models I read, especially if unsecured, people can type an address and read all the GUI's config like a .ini file, and they even get your password and wireless encryption key. There IS a problem, but I don't really remember what it is. (I read the DSLreports topic on it, and people talk about one problem, D-Link support about an other, etc. It's all messed up.)

[Saturn2888]

Well mine's the VPN one, I hope it's fine. Also, my wireless is done by Belkin so I'm fine there then.

[DragonMaster]

Well mine's the VPN one, I hope it's fine. Also, my wireless is done by Belkin so I'm fine there then.

I don't think the VPN models are really safer. One or two models had the easy-to-see settings problem, but others got an other problem, which wasn't revealed IIRC. If you can access your router's config thru your Belkin wireless, then it could cause problems, but I'm not really sure of the problem. I know there's one with all their routers tho.

I just Googled about the problem, and it's on the LAN side, so this firewall shouldn't be necessary for every D-Links.

All you have to do is to disable evil UPnP (Like Steve Gibson from grc.com is calling it).

[Saturn2888]

LOL! Security Now! I'm here w/ Steve Gibson, now refered to as the security guru. Yeah, I listened to #51 today. It's almost as memorized as "Hello again, I'm Rodney Renalds and welcome to another Video Review" It's not good unless you do the head-nod too. I dunno if Rod still does it, but it's always cool bc you can tell he's happy he didn't mess up when he was saying the intro. At least I think so.

[hytek9]

LOL! Security Now! I'm here w/ Steve Gibson, now refered to as the security guru. Yeah, I listened to #51 today. It's almost as memorized as "Hello again, I'm Rodney Renalds and welcome to another Video Review" It's not good unless you do the head-nod too. I dunno if Rod still does it, but it's always cool bc you can tell he's happy he didn't mess up when he was saying the intro. At least I think so.

Love that podcast.

I think I will enter this one, it has been a few months. Count me in. :hail

[=CDU=Above]

I'd like to give it another try. Thanks.

[Saturn2888]

Yeah, it's a great podcast. I hope you win this one then. A fellow Security Now! guy would easily know the benefits.

[MaStA]

This would definitely be nice! Thank you!

Jared

[T-shirt]

I would like this firewall
another great giveaway from a great site
BTW Had to register on main site as Tshirt, form would not take the dash to make it T-shirt

[dassub]

why would anyone say forget it :O

[Saturn2888]

Sometimes it's nice to so others have a chance at winning. Also, I don't like firewalls. I like to have the fastest possible download speed possible.

[Capt'n Carnage]

this is something i would SERIOUSLY use daily , ive been wanting to get a hardware firewall for some time and this beauty looks llike the deluxe model with heardware and software build in.

Face it Spybot helps but in todays internet you need professional help keeping your systems clean healthy and happy.


Count me in as a very hopeful potental winner ^^

[Saturn2888]

Unless you're me or the Security Now! guys. You really don't need that stuff. But it does allow you to be a lot less careful online.

[DragonMaster]

I like to have the fastest possible download speed possible.

That's why an hardware firewall would help! ;)

[Saturn2888]

I don't understand. I still have time to enter, but I don't understand.

[AKfortyseven]

sweet i was actully looking at buying one of these

[DragonMaster]

I don't understand. I still have time to enter, but I don't understand.

An hardware firewall has a processor dedicated to the task, while a software one uses your CPU. Games often use ~100% so it could slow down the firewall (Or and tasks could slow it down)

There's a reason why hardware sound, graphics, network, DMA are better. But about this firewall, I don't know if we're talking about a recent computer because it seems like a more complete solution than a software. (Which could be worth it for this reason also, depends of what you're looking)

[Saturn2888]

Oh well forget it then. Doesn't look too spiffy. I guess I'll wait to get something more 3GM Kickass in the next giveaway.

[SAMSAMHA]

hehehe, saturn, you konw there will be alot of other great 3gm prizes:).

[Tivon]

I'm not going to enter this one. ;)

[Saturn2888]

YAY! Tivon the admin, and I will sit out. Did Kingdom ever get around to this one? I dunno if he wanted to join or not bc of his 1:1 ratio and because he might not need this one.

Sam: You bet there'll be others! I love the giveaways. Actually, the threads for them are more fun than winning the prize :0

[Tivon]

YAY! Tivon the admin, and I will sit out. Did Kingdom ever get around to this one? I dunno if he wanted to join or not bc of his 1:1 ratio and because he might not need this one.

Sam: You bet there'll be others! I love the giveaways. Actually, the threads for them are more fun than winning the prize :0

I just didn't want to use all of my goodluck. ;)

[Kindom934]

YAY! Tivon the admin, and I will sit out. Did Kingdom ever get around to this one? I dunno if he wanted to join or not bc of his 1:1 ratio and because he might not need this one.

Sam: You bet there'll be others! I love the giveaways. Actually, the threads for them are more fun than winning the prize :0

Hehe...

I'm gonna keep my won:enter 100%. I know there's other people who needs firewall but having a hardware firewall is nice....

I think i'll watch....

[Saturn2888]

LOL! All of us are watching! (All meaning Tivon, Kingdom, and me, ha ha ha!). So umm... What happened to the forums?

[Tivon]

This is sad.. there must be somebody that needs one of these? You almost can't even give it away...lol :)

[Saturn2888]

Lol, a lot of people wanted it. I think 2-3 people need it who are actually new to the forums. Wasn't Drizzt one of them? I dunno, I love the giveaway threads bc they go waaaay off topic that's why I'll even post that I'm not entering. This is probably the best giveaway for new people to the site bc well... a bunch of us aren't entering. Only 25 votes. That means either Kindom or you Tivon didn't vote since there should be 3 of us saying "Forget it."

I think this'll be the easiest giveaway to win bc there are such high chances of winning.

[Tivon]

I voted, it's not my cup of tea. I'd rather have a smoothwall. ;)

[Saturn2888]

LOL! Yeah. I like cinder blocks myself. Wood is good, but it's too weird for homes unless it's flooring or furnature. Back to firewalls though! Hmm... I still don't like them.

[Kindom934]

. Only 25 votes. That means either Kindom or you Tivon didn't vote since there should be 3 of us saying "Forget it."

I forgot...volted...i mean voted! :Thumb


I think this'll be the easiest giveaway to win bc there are such high chances of winning.

XD...no doubt.

LOL! Yeah. I like cinder blocks myself. Wood is good, but it's too weird for homes unless it's flooring or furnature. Back to firewalls though! Hmm... I still don't like them.

Errr...I don't understand how a cup of tea and smooth wall.........

[Tivon]

Best not to even ask what that was about. :)

[Polytec]

I have to get in on this. Been wanting a good hardware firewall.

[Maniacmous]

Pretty kickass, if I win, it might keep my roommates from getting hacked, save me some work down the line.

[T07N]

I need some serious security management. I'm in!

[Saturn2888]

Yeah, you really need it then Maniacmous. So like, I'm pretty sure Rod's watching our every post. Then when it comes to chosing time, he's laughing at us count down going "this is the day!" For a lot of the contests, he's got a lot better stuff than we do!

[DragonMaster]

Pretty kickass, if I win, it might keep my roommates from getting hacked, save me some work down the line.

:banghead

If my brother wouldn't download torrents and game demos so much, we would stop getting viruses on the main computer. (Before he knew anything about BitTorrent, the Anti-Virus and Anti-spyware never EVER found anything on that computer(Except tracking cookies).

A few years ago, if you knew what you were doing, you could browse the Internet w/o any firewall, anti-virus or anything. You just had to kill things like NetBIOS, use Netscape Navigator and you were fine.

[Care^Bear]

I didn't even know this contest existed, totally in for this sweet peice of hardware. =D

[Saturn2888]

:banghead

If my brother wouldn't download torrents and game demos so much, we would stop getting viruses on the main computer. (Before he knew anything about BitTorrent, the Anti-Virus and Anti-spyware never EVER found anything on that computer(Except tracking cookies).

A few years ago, if you knew what you were doing, you could browse the Internet w/o any firewall, anti-virus or anything. You just had to kill things like NetBIOS, use Netscape Navigator and you were fine.

I can still do that! Just browse sites you know. If it's a bad site, use a school computer :P Really though, I've never had any BT problems, but I'm not doing anything bad w/ it so that's probably why.

[Kindom934]

I can still do that! Just browse sites you know. If it's a bad site, use a school computer :P Really though, I've never had any BT problems, but I'm not doing anything bad w/ it so that's probably why.

Yep. I only visit Newegg.com, 3DGameman ,and my guild forums on a typical day so I'm usually not going into foreign ground and such. No wonder I've been going so long before without anti-virus and such. Of course, once you start doing google search for pictures (i.e animewall paper), you get wacked with all kinds of crud.

[DragonMaster]

I can still do that! Just browse sites you know. If it's a bad site, use a school computer :P Really though, I've never had any BT problems, but I'm not doing anything bad w/ it so that's probably why.

Using a school computer? I don't know : No burner, no USB & Win95.

[SAMSAMHA]

good luck guys.

[Saturn2888]

Using a school computer? I don't know : No burner, no USB & Win95.

Well that sucks. All of the ones I've used in the last 4 years are WinXP w/ tons of USB and they're very fast, they're just usually slowed down by network overhead.

Yeah, Kingdom and I (I'm going back to saying Kingdom) both go where we know. I find few reasons to go to new sites, and if I do, I can always make sure ahead of time if they're good or bad. Google has this new feature which helps out by saying which sites are known to be bad. It's done by a team of researchers at various universities, and I know of no money that's been passed under-the-table as of yet so it's a good thing so far.

Hey Kingdom, see if Tivon or Rod could fix that for you :)

One day guys! Kingdom, it's your call this time. Let's see if you can guess who'd get it since you, Tivon, and I aren't goin' for it.

[slugbug]

I could use this for sure. Only a few hours left til the draw :banana

[Maniacmous]

Amen to that, could really use it, if only so I could turn off the integrated firewall in my wireless router at school - my roommates use BT entirely too much, overloads the memory and causes me to reset the router all the time.

[Saturn2888]

Ha ha ha! That sucks. Yeah, to fix that, you're supposed to have it use 10 KBps less than your max upload speed so everything works as it should and nothing overflows since BT uses the upload bandwidth as well. Also, the client they use matters too, but I can't wait to see who wins! This is something that's always fun to watch.

[Protocol.]

sounds like a cool deal, gl to everyone who is participating

[3dGameMan]

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Winner is: slugbug

Please forward your complete address information to me, gameman@3dgameman.com

Congrats to the winner(s) :) To everyone who didn't win, there will be another new contest next month :Thumb

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[3dGameMan]

I have another great giveaway for Sept.. I'll post that this coming weekend :Thumb

[Care^Bear]

Grats slugbug!

[slugbug]

Wow I won :banana
Thanks guys.
E-mail sent :thumb

[Saturn2888]

Ha ha ha "I could use this one for sure," and you did! Congrats. We'll see if Kingdom knew that one or not. I had no guesses. I would've guessed Tivon again but he didn't participate!!! LOL, I'm just kidding, but it would've been funny I think.

I can't wait for the new one. I can't believe I didn't compete in this one either anyway :P

[SAMSAMHA]

awesome. Congrat slugbug

[Saturn2888]

Sam, did you do this one? After winning that Stacker, I'd be like, well, looks like I won't be winning anything for a year.

[Kindom934]

Wow...Not expected.


Hehe...This is fun to watch.

[WicKeDcHilD]

congrats slug!!

[slugbug]

Unexpected indeed. Especially since winning in EVGA's scavenger hunt contest a few weeks ago.
I better buy a Loto ticket :)

[tomato]

Congrats, slugbug, enjoy it ;) :)

[Saturn2888]

Do it! We'll see how far this goes. So I guess you're in the 3GM Giveaway clut. Now you can post in my thread and be like, I won a Firewall :)

[hytek9]

Congrats Slug! :Thumb

[slugbug]

Do it! We'll see how far this goes. So I guess you're in the 3GM Giveaway clut. Now you can post in my thread and be like, I won a Firewall :)
Not sure what a 3GM Giveaway clut is, but happy to be in it :)
j\k

[Saturn2888]

Check the thread on Giveaway 27 or search for cult, and you might find my first post on it, and it became this thing Kingdom and I joke about (and some others).

[habashy89]

congrats man!

[Tivon]

Grats! :)

[slugbug]

No package in the mail yet :Sigh

[Saturn2888]

lol! You'll get it. Whatever. I know it's kinda past time, but I'd say 2 days, and you'll have it!

[Kindom934]

Hmm...

Mines took about 2 weeks when I won the other giveaway. Some other person one took a while though...

[Saturn2888]

Yeah, usually one of 'em does. I think was the first to receive mine (Corsair RAM), but the first one I won (Ultra PSU) took freakin' forever.

[n8gardner]

Count me in!

[robodude666]

Count me in!
Winners will be drawn on Aug. 31, 2006

Contest has been over for 21 days...

[slugbug]

Count me in!
Too late, I already won it :)

[Saturn2888]

LOL!, I guess he saw the wrong giveaway. I mean, isn't this one the top thread?

[slugbug]

nothing in the mail yet :(

[3dGameMan]

nothing in the mail yet :(
I emailed them last week and CCed it to you. Did you get that email? i will try calling them today.

[Saturn2888]

No WAY! Okay, yeah, I'm sure Rod'll contact them for you.

[slugbug]

Yes I got the email. I'm guessing it'll arrive this week or early next.
Thanks Rodney :Thumb

[slugbug]

Got it today :Thumb

[3dGameMan]

Got it today :Thumb
Enjoy and let us know what you think of it.

[Saturn2888]

YAY! If it looks good in whatever place you put it, I think it'd be neat to have pics.

[slugbug]

Picture the aftermath of a tornado. My computer room is worse :Sigh

[Saturn2888]

Oh gosh. Looks like there's no pics on this one. :p

[Kindom934]

Picture the aftermath of a tornado. My computer room is worse :Sigh

Wait..what? There was a tornado??

[Saturn2888]

Uh... No tornado. You know what a simile is right? Well that was one right there. He's comparing his room to looking like a tornado passed through. OMG, a simile w/o the use of like or as. That's the second one of those I've encountered.

[Kindom934]

Uh... No tornado. You know what a simile is right? Well that was one right there. He's comparing his room to looking like a tornado passed through. OMG, a simile w/o the use of like or as. That's the second one of those I've encountered.

o_O...


Oh...I'm like...geez, I'm glad you surived. Although, I sometimes am glad I didn't die in my room. My room looks quite bad. I got so much computer junks and stuff that my bed isn't in my room...it's more called "the technology" room. Wait, computers are not called "junks"...wait...well...after 4 days a hauling old computers.............

(Silence)

[Saturn2888]

Yeah, my room was messy for a bit. Wanna see what it looked like the other day?

this (http://kevin.umkcddr.com/mark/bonnielass/IMG_2063.jpg)
this (http://kevin.umkcddr.com/mark/bonnielass/IMG_2064.jpg)
this (http://kevin.umkcddr.com/mark/bonnielass/IMG_2065.jpg)
and this (http://kevin.umkcddr.com/mark/bonnielass/IMG_2066.jpg)

[robodude666]

I am scared to ask why so many paper towel and toiler tissue roles :Holy Crap lol
I was bored today, and cleaned my room :D

[Saturn2888]

Tidying up the wires. I can't believe I'm the only one that uses them for that.

[slugbug]

Yeah, my room was messy for a bit. Wanna see what it looked like the other day?

this (http://kevin.umkcddr.com/mark/bonnielass/IMG_2063.jpg)
this (http://kevin.umkcddr.com/mark/bonnielass/IMG_2064.jpg)
this (http://kevin.umkcddr.com/mark/bonnielass/IMG_2065.jpg)
and this (http://kevin.umkcddr.com/mark/bonnielass/IMG_2066.jpg)
Wow your room is super clean :o

[Saturn2888]

Uh huh? That's pretty dirty for me.

[slugbug]

I've noticed since connecting the Alphashield that my download/upload speeds have dropped :Sigh

Without: Your download speed : 8895 kbps or 1111.8 KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 656 kbps or 82 KB/sec.

With: Your download speed : 6535 kbps or 816.9 KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 567 kbps or 70.8 KB/sec.

I'll call their tech support line when they're open tomorrow to see what can be done to solve this problem.

[robodude666]

Wow, thats a massive drop. But worth to pay a little bit of speed for higher security, dont you think? BTW, what do you use for your tester? I haven't found many sites that are correct :(

[slugbug]

I use my ISP's speedtest page http://testvitesse.videotron.ca/

[Saturn2888]

I don't like the drop. that's TOO much which is why I don't like Firewalls. But do you mind?

[Kindom934]

Still faster then what I got...

[Saturn2888]

Really? What are you getting?

Yeah, let's not have this become a "post your internet speed" thread.
But yeah, that's faster than mine too. Canada getting good connection?

[Kindom934]

Really? What are you getting?

Yeah, let's not have this become a "post your internet speed" thread.
But yeah, that's faster than mine too. Canada getting good connection?

I'm on Wired 802.11G. Dad's DSL is slower then my Mom's Cable. Dad's DSL has better uploading though.

[slugbug]

I don't like the drop. that's TOO much which is why I don't like Firewalls. But do you mind?
Yes it's too much of a drop for me. Hopefully Alphashield can help me with this today.

I talked to their tech support and all they could suggest was I rma it. I doubt exchanging it would make a difference though.
The tech said a 10 - 20 % slowdown is normal, but mine is more like 25 % slower :(
I guess that's the price you have to pay to be hack free.

[Saturn2888]

Yeah. RMA it then I guess. It really might be a hardware problem.