I have to go back to refresher classes constantly to keep up-to-date on current technologies so I can do my job. Think about this fact: We learned in school that the average age of a router in American households is 3.5 years old. When a new router model is released the manufacture probably released a few small firmware updates over the course of the first six months that it was on the market until they released a newer model and then they quit updating the old models. But nowhere in those small firmware updates was a set of virus definitions, current list of threats to networks, nothing like that. It was nothing but hardware patches to tweak small issues that come out in the router after its initial release. By comparison last year AT&T spent over $3.8 million keeping their ISP network secure for themselves and to protect their residential internet customers. That's not counting their cellular and other networks that's only referring to the amount they spent on the security for their residential home Internet service subscribers. Now does anybody really believe that the security protocols that is built in to a store bought router averaging 3.5 years old is better than what AT&T is already providing? If you do I have some ocean front property I'd like to talk about selling you sight unseen. Now AT&T is a very large provider and just a single example but most of your smaller ISPs purchase or lease their bandwidth, equipment, and get their security protocols and updates from the larger companies such as AT&T.
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