What you need to know about routers

  Firstly, let’s be sure we’re talking about the same bit of kit.  Your router is the little box that houses your modem and where your broadband signal arrives to be ‘routed’ to the various devices that need internet access.  This might be wired or wireless....

Routed out

One of my clients referred to a little box in her office as a ‘router’, but actually it was a Wifi access point and so a conversation about what is what ensued. These days most routers are three or four devices all in a single box and do some or all of the following:...