Routers and network switches aren't the same hardware—depending on your setup, you may need both.

A router's wide area network (WAN) port acts as its gateway to other networks, providing an interface for the router to send outgoing traffic over. Computers should not be connected to a router's WAN ...

To share a printer between two computers, both computers need to be connected to the same network. Business networks are usually created using a network router, but you can also create small networks ...

At home I have two computers, in two different rooms, both with internet access. My main computer is connected through a router that is connected to a cable modem, the cable modem is also connected to ...

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This Cisco Systems 7500 router was used between 1994 and 2001 in the first Commercial Internet Exchange (CIX). For most of its active life, this server was located in the Palo Alto Internet Exchange, ...

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