router vs modem

[Guest Brunozipt]

what's the diference?

[beebskadoo]

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[DudeWazap]

A modem is used to connect the line from your Isp (Coaxial or DSL) to your PC or router.

 

A router makes your internet Wireless (wifi) so that more than one device can be connected to it at the same time. That way more than one person can be using the Internet at the same time.

 

You need both a Modem and a router in order for that to work.

 

If you only have a router you will not be able to use the internet and if you only have a modem then only one device can use the internet at the same time.

[JohnnyGrey]

A router makes your internet Wireless (wifi)

Just to clarify, not every router has wireless. To keep it simpler, a router assigns IP addresses and directs traffic to more than one device.

You can use the modem directly with a PC, but in order to have multiple devices connect, you'd need a router right after the modem.

Figured I'd edit this: Some ISP's give you a "Gateway," which is the modem, router, ethernet switch, and wifi access point all in one box. Our AT&T service has this, and the home phone also comes out of it too.

[s3ns3]

i know that if you live in the past and you still have adsl or what name that old internet has,you need a modem.then a router to give the internet to pc`s. for fibre you don`t need nothing but if you want to share the internet you need a router 

[DudeWazap]

Just to clarify, not every router has wireless. To keep it simpler, a router assigns IP addresses and directs traffic to more than one device.

You can use the modem directly with a PC, but in order to have multiple devices connect, you'd need a router right after the modem.

Yes you are correct thank you for that.

[scaryjam823]

A modem is used to connect the line from your Isp (Coaxial or DSL) to your PC or router.

 

A router makes your internet Wireless (wifi) so that more than one device can be connected to it at the same time. That way more than one person can be using the Internet at the same time.

 

You need both a Modem and a router in order for that to work.

 

If you only have a router you will not be able to use the internet and if you only have a modem then only one device can use the internet at the same time.

A router also has a built in firewall which helps with protection.

[s3ns3]

If you only have a router you will not be able to use the internet

that is true only for those old internetz,coaxial and dsl adsl or what other names its has. 

[DudeWazap]

that is true only for those old internetz,coaxial and dsl adsl or what other names its has. 

Yeah, I believe for fiber it doesn't matter. Is that correct?

[juretrn]

Real men use phone lines instead of Cat5/6 cables!

[s3ns3]

Yeah, I believe for fiber it doesn't matter. Is that correct?

yep you plug the cable straight in the network adapter . you need the user and pass from isp. or plug it in the router and set up the connection in it

[Unknown_Guy]

Modem basically translates analog signal to digital. Router is a device that redirects digital data. DSL modem is combination of modem and router. So modem is not always just modem.

[GoodBytes]

Modem basically translates analog signal to digital.

This is technically correct, but the term was carried on with modern digital technologies of today's internet. It is indeed an incorrect term, but it is used even by professionals.

Cable, DSL, Fibers, are all digital and the signal stays in digital form all the way to the destination, yet we call those devices modems.

Same for routers. They are supposed to be called NAT's (Network Address Translation), as routers actually routs the packets to the correct destination (to other routers, unless one of them has the destination server or client)

[Unknown_Guy]

This is technically correct, but the term was carried on with modern digital technologies of today's internet. It is indeed an incorrect term, but it is used even by professionals.

Cable, DSL, Fibers, are all digital and the signal stays in digital form all the way to the destination, yet we call those devices modems.

Same for routers. They are supposed to be called NAT's (Network Address Translation), as routers actually routs the packets to the correct destination (to other routers, unless one of them has the destination server or client)

I'm quite sure cable and DSL is not digital.

[Latislapaloie]

Just to clarify, not every router has wireless. To keep it simpler, a router assigns IP addresses and directs traffic to more than one device.

You can use the modem directly with a PC, but in order to have multiple devices connect, you'd need a router right after the modem.

i only have 1 that connects everything- internet cord thingy from the wall, pc, brothers xbox and wireless

[JohnnyGrey]

I'm quite sure cable and DSL is not digital.

That depends on the type of DSL. Older DSL wasn't digital, but the newer DSL is, like AT&T's U-Verse.

[Unknown_Guy]

That depends on the type of DSL. Older DSL wasn't digital, but the newer DSL is, like AT&T's U-Verse.

Doh, shame on me, guess what the D stands for in DSL. So only the phone/fax stuff is analog there.

[JohnnyGrey]

Doh, shame on me, guess what the D stands for in DSL. So only the phone/fax stuff is analog there.

Apparently I was wrong too, all DSL was digital, but the newer stuff is different than the older stuff