A lot of home and pro users have choosen ASL because of ASL functions but also because ASL was able to run on "old" and "depreciated" hardware.
This last remark was true with ASL 4 (able to run on a PII with 128M adn 4GB Hard disk). It's becoming false with ASL 5 which needs a quite more recent hardware (PII 233 - 256Mo is unsuable, and PII 400 must not be more usable, and this also when stopping all advanced functions of ASL 5 -surf protection, intrusion detection, ...- ).
In fact ASL 5 on a Duron 1,8Ghz and 256M seems to run at same speed as ASL 4 on a PII 233 - 128Mo (always with all advanced functions turned off).
The hardware gap between ASL 4 and ASL 5 seems too much important to me.
And this gap may lead up many and many people to migrate to another firewalling solution.
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