consumers have been taught that routing, NAT, etc isn't done by a PC or server, but MUST be relegated to an appliance.
Because that's far more reliable. People don't want their whole home's Internet to go down every time they reboot their computer (and buying an extra computer to do routing is a big waste of money/complexity). Not to mention households that only have laptops.
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consumers have been taught that routing, NAT, etc isn't done by a PC or server, but MUST be relegated to an appliance.
Because that's far more reliable. People don't want their whole home's Internet to go down every time they reboot their computer (and buying an extra computer to do routing is a big waste of money/complexity). Not to mention households that only have laptops.