What is a router?
To make it really easy you could say that the router is the box between the internet wall-socket and your computer. Normally it has one cable going from the wall to the router and then transform the signal to wireless or by cable to one or several computers. The "box" contain a program that most often can be accessed by using you normal browser (Explorer, Mozilla etc) and communicates with a web-interface. At first connection you will have to provide a username and a password. The guide we point to here on this site, portforward.com, has all the default passwords. Make sure you read it carefully! What defines a router is not its shape, color, size or manufacturer, but its job function of routing data packets between computers. A cable modem which routes data between your PC and your ISP can be considered a router. In its most basic form, a router could simply be one of two computers running the Windows 98 (or higher) operating system connected together using ICS (Internet Connection Sharing). In this scenario, the computer that is connected to the Internet is acting as the router for the second computer to obtain its Internet connection. Going a step up from ICS, we have a category of hardware routers that are used to perform the same basic task as ICS, albeit with more features and functions. Often called broadband or Internet connection sharing routers, these routers allow you to share one Internet connection between multiple computers. Those are the most common routers used by the typical DC++ users. Read more...
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