WiFi routers a) do connect to the internet (as many of them are integrated modems as well as WiFi) and b) are often mentioned as “connecting” to the internet as

WiFi routers a) do connect to the internet (as many of them are integrated modems as well as WiFi) and b) are often mentioned as “connecting” to the internet as a colloquialism that means “a device on my WiFi can’t reach the internet because the router has an issue”. > If your modem can’t connect to the internet, something has probably broken outside your house Of all the internet-only connectivity outages I’ve had that lasted for longer than a few minutes, nearly all of them were resolved by a modem or router reboot. These are ordinary, non-customized modem/routers from 3-4 ordinary ISPs serving ordinary apartments in a major US city, using ordinary mediums like DSL, cable, fiber. The fact that a reboot resolved the issue means that the problem wasn’t outside the house. Of all the remaining, long and not-fixed-by-reboot outages, one was a hurricane, one was a bad amp … and all the remaining dozens were arcane technical issues with the modem, router, or devices on the network that required ISP troubleshooting to fix. I suspect that this is not an uncommon distribution, which means that this isn’t the same problem folks in the last century faced; today, the shitware is coming from inside the house.