Both a modem and a router are essential when it comes to a wireless internet connection in your home. Learn their uses and how they differ. Best tech deals 🛍️ $3,500 iPhone possible?

Both pieces of equipment are needed to connect your other devices to the internet. But the roles they play are different.

Thus, the router sends and receives networking traffic from the modem with one connection and routes all that data through its four Ethernet ports and through the air via the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands.

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The box you rent from Comcast contains both a modem, the device that connects to the service provider's network, and the wireless router, to which you connect via WiFi or Ethernet cable.