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Thread ID: 42136	2004-02-01 23:54:00	Can anyone tell me what is a wirless router ?	scottiedave (4861)	Press F1

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212195	2004-02-01 23:54:00	Can anyone tell me what is a wirless router ? And the difference between a wirless router and a normal wirless accessing ponit ? And also please suggest me which would be better , 3COM or Linksys?Thanks!	scottiedave (4861)
212196	2004-02-02 00:13:00	In the old days there were bridges and routers. Bridges were straight protocol converters (from ethernet to phone or whatever). Routers were smarter, they could make decisions about where to send the data if there was more than one destination. With ethernet-only hubs, smarter ones are called switches because they send the data to only the intended recipient rather than simply regurgitate everything. I suppose that means that a wireless router acts like wireless ethernet switch with the ability to route traffic to an ADSL link as appropriate. A wireless access point might just biff all data to an ethernet port to allow communication with the rest of the network. Am I right? As for 3Com versus Linksys, used 3Com heaps and mostly great. Hardly used Linksys so couldn't comment. robo.	robo (205)
212197	2004-02-02 02:40:00	A wireless router is capable of connecting two subnets; typically these are used to connect a 'local' wireless network e.g. 192.168.0.x to a WAN such as an ADSL modems ISP supplied IP address. Most ADSL modems used in NZ contain an inbuilt router therefore make a wireless router redundant. If you have this combo (ADSL router and Wireless router) and the wireless router has wired lan sockets in addition to the 'WAN' socket, you can connected one of these to the ADSL router, and thereby not use the router function of the Wireless device. An AP can be considered as the wireless equivalent of a hub or switch - it works on the same subnet and effectively converts wireless to wired lans.	wuppo (41)
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