What is the difference between a modem and a router?

Answer: A modem is what receives your internet service provider’s signal and gives you access to the internet. The router is what dishes out addresses to your devices and allows them access to the provider’s internet.

Answer: A modem is what receives the internet through your ISP (Internet Service Provider [Comcast, Xfinity, AT&T, Spectrum, etc.]) and "translates" the information into usable internet connections. The router is what shares that information to devices and allows those devices to connect to the internet.

Answer: A modem is a box that connects your home network to your internet service provider, or ISP. A router is a box that lets all of your wired and wireless devices use that internet connection at once and allows them to talk to one another directly.

Answer: Modem supplies the internet connection from your service provider. A router manages all the devices in your home or business, assigns internal IP address and filters data as it give inbound and outbound access to the internet.

Answer: A modem is a device that allows one device to connect to the internet while a router allows multiple devices. Most ISPs provide a larger device which has modem, router and WIFI capabilities all in one so there is no need to have several devices.

Answer: A Modem in Technical terms is a signal Modulator and Demodulator which the cable provider uses to bring its signal into your home/office. A router is a device used to connect computers (Desktops, Laptops, Smartphones and Tablets) and other computer related devices to a high speed network or allow said devices to other devices on said Computer Network to include Printers, Scanners, Cameras, etc. An Internet Gateway is device that is a combination of a MODEM AND ROUTER. This allows the Internet provider to install one device in a home or small office and provide an internet connection as well as wired and wireless network connections for multiple devices.

Answer: A modem is a device that allows you to receive your internet providers signal, then you can plug a network compatible device into your modem for internet access. Routers are a device that plugs into a modem to creating a wirless signal that allows you internet access by connecting to it wirelessly. A modem and router combined in one device is called a gateway.

Answer: the router must be connected to a modem.

Answer: Modem is your source that you need to get internet. In short, router is your splitter to connect more than one computer either wired or wirelessly. There are of course many other functions to a router as well.

Answer: A modem is what provides the internet service to the home or office but is unable to "route" the service to computers or smart devices. Routers provide the ability to give internet access to all of the devices.

Answer: A modem (modulator-demodulator) is a network hardware device that modulates one or more carrier wave signals to encode digital information for transmission and demodulates signals to decode the transmitted information The main purpose of a router is to connect multiple networks and forward packets destined either for its own networks or other networks hardware device that modulates one or more carrier wave signals

Answer: A modem usually takes a phone signal from a wire and a router usually transmits a wireless signal

Answer: Modem gives you internet and router gives you wireless connection

Answer: In order for devices on the network to connect to the Internet, the router must be connected to a modem. Therefore, most routers have a specific Ethernet port that is designed to connect to the Ethernet port of a cable or DSL modem. A modem is a device that provides access to the Internet.

Answer: A modem is the communication device that connects you to the internet. Typically a cable, DSL, Uverse modem connects only one device to the internet. A router is the main communication device that takes that single internet connection and provides sharing and possibly firewall protection to multiple devices via wired and/or wireless connections. Sometimes there is an all in one device that combines both functionality - often offered by the internet service provider. It saves your space and additional devices, however, sometimes it may be limited in its capabilities compared to a full fledged router.

Answer: A router is a small box that allows multiple computers to join the same network and a modem is a device that provides access to the Internet.

Answer: A modem communicates with your Internet service provider’s network. A router shares your Internet connection among multiple devices. The router must be plugged into the modem using an Ethernet cable. These two device working together allow the connection to the Internet via your Internet service provider. Some Internet service providers use a combination modem / router in one device.

Answer: Modem actually receives the internet signal and delegates it to the router. The router connects multiple devices together, creating a network.

Answer: Modem makes the connection while the router finds the best line of communication.

Answer: Modems are for connecting outside the private network Routers are used to connect inside the private network

Answer: A modem is a device that provides access to the Internet, the router must be connected to a modem

Answer: The modem receives the broadband signal and the router sends it to other devices in a network

Answer: A modem brings the signal in from the ISP. A router packets data hands out IP's and directs traffect across the LAN and the WAN.

Answer: The modem changes one language into another, a router just tells different communications packets where to go.

Answer: A modem is a device that translates one type of signal to another on the same network - like the signal from a cable company to the signal that an Ethernet network uses. A router typically forwards Internet Protocol packets between two or more networks.

Answer: The modem connects to a cable or wire from your ISP, A router does two things by leeching on to your modem. (Well, three.)It can take the digital signal from your modem (which the modem gets from ISP (AKA)cable company) and share it with (routes it to) other computers in your house. As such you now have a computer network at home.

Answer: The modem connects to your ISP, a router provides access to a local network (LAN), it does not necessarily provide access to the Internet. The modem does that

Answer: A modem is a device that provides internet service but only to one device. A router takes the signal from a modem and uses DHCP to give out IP addresses for each and every device that connects to it wired or wirelessly. Some devices are actually a hybrid so they have a modem and a router built into the same component.