What is A Router
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diduknowthat
formerly liuliuboy
you plug your internet modem to it and then you can send the internet through many computers. A normal router would use lan cables and a wireless router would you, wireless.
Byteman
Malware Destroyer
Routers 101: 
routers connect networks, which have different IP address subnets. In the corporate case, it usually means a corporate LAN connected to another corporate network. In the home case it means, your LAN (the computers you have in your house, on one side of the router), and the network of your ISP on the other side of the router. You actually connect to the Internet via your ISP's network, (that's how police catch digital badguys, by getting records and info from ISP's). Many, as liuliuboy stated, are now wireless capable, which in reality is just another interface to one side of the router (the LAN side). Routers can connect networks with the same IP address subnets as well, and many nowadays have firmware which includes firewalls and other goodies. So, routers connect networks. Home based routers connect you to your ISP, with goodies added in (wireless interfaces, firewalls, content filters, etc...)
routers connect networks, which have different IP address subnets. In the corporate case, it usually means a corporate LAN connected to another corporate network. In the home case it means, your LAN (the computers you have in your house, on one side of the router), and the network of your ISP on the other side of the router. You actually connect to the Internet via your ISP's network, (that's how police catch digital badguys, by getting records and info from ISP's). Many, as liuliuboy stated, are now wireless capable, which in reality is just another interface to one side of the router (the LAN side). Routers can connect networks with the same IP address subnets as well, and many nowadays have firmware which includes firewalls and other goodies. So, routers connect networks. Home based routers connect you to your ISP, with goodies added in (wireless interfaces, firewalls, content filters, etc...)
penguinrusty
New Member
In other words, it is a device that has multiple computers as well as the internet plugged into it, so that the compuers can share files between each other and also have internet.
creature_feature
banned
A device that determines the next network point to which a data packet should be forwarded enroute toward its destination. The router is connected to at least two networks and determines which way to send each data packet based on its current understanding of the state of the networks it is connected to. Routers create or maintain a table of the available routes and use this information to determine the best route for a given data packet.
