> Router as in the hardware always rhymes with doubter. > I have never heard any other pronunciation for it. Neither had I, until I lived in the UK. I'm Aus

> Router as in the hardware always rhymes with doubter. > I have never heard any other pronunciation for it. Neither had I, until I lived in the UK. I'm Australian, and we use the owl sounding router. In the UK, it's very much a rooter sounding router. Always funny, as here in AU root is slang for the act of copulation. The pronunciation made Akamai's SureRoute product especially droll.