Even more confusing, some devices can act as both a router and a modem! A router acts as the central hub of your home network ...

Instead of wiring each of your devices to your modem, you wire a router to it. From there, that router broadcasts a Wi-Fi network. Any Wi-Fi device in range of that network can use whatever ...

The two major components in a small computer network are a modem and wireless router. The modem is wired to the Internet via the cable company's coaxial cable, the telephone company's DSL phone ...

Its job is twofold: One, to create a local network that links all your devices together, and two, provide access to the internet through a connection with a modem. It helps to imagine a router as ...