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The box in people's home's colloquially known as a router actually commonly combines a lot of functions into one: * router * firewall * NAT device * modem
by packet_nerd 7y ago
The box in people's home's colloquially known as a router actually commonly combines a lot of functions into one:
* router
* firewall
* NAT device
* modem
* switch
* access point
* DNS resolver
* DHCP server
And probably others I'm not thinking of :-)
- qubex 7y agoI call them “terminal adapters”, because I’m still stuck in the ISDN age.
- sandov 7y agoONT in the case of fiber. Don't know if it technically counts as a modem.
- bobbob1921 7y agoMedia converter maybe? (Like those $100 or so fiber to ethernet converters, I say this as it’s usually a modem/router plugged into the ONT‘s ethernet port that does isp to cpe authentication, tunneling, etc. so the ONT is just converting fiber (from isps OLT) to ethernet for something more common to plug into)
- SAI_Peregrinus 7y agoModem comes from MODulator/DEModulator. It's taking a signal of one sort (electrical) and modulating light to send info, and also demodulating incoming light to receive. It's a modem.
- fulafel 7y agoAdding more functions to a router doesn't make it a non-router. But if it's doing NAT and not routing, then it's a different distinction. But yep it depends on the configuration.