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To: Mike Buckley who wrote (18476)2/23/2000 11:02:00 AM
From: JRH  Read Replies (3) of 54805
 
Now, please explain a router in context of hubs and switches

As you probably know now, a hub/switch is used to direct data traffic in a local area network, which is a group of computers in close proximity to each other (for example, an office building). A local area network works fine if data communication only occurs between computers in that building. But what happens when a computer in that building needs to talk to a computer in another building, or needs to talk to another computer on the other side of the world?

That is when the router comes into play. The router takes traffic that is destined for any place except computers on the local area network and it sends the traffic off to another router, who will either send it to it's local area network or send it off to the next router. And so a collection of these routers around the world has created the internet.

Was my explaination easy enough for a carpetologist to understand?
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