Many people buy their computer hardware, such as wireless equipment or routers, from discount stores. I use to do this until I found out that much of the hardware is out of date. And the only way to know it is out of date is to research the product for the latest version and open the box you intend to buy and check the version.
For example, I bought a router with a version of 1.1. When I went to update the firmware, I found the latest hardware version was 3. Yeow! After comparing the versions, v1.1 was missing a few important security features that v3 had. Lesson learned.
Doug
