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Networking 101: The Router

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  • Type: Video Tutorial
  • Length: 1:09
  • Media: Flash video file
  • Posted: 04/20/2009
  • Use: Watch Online
  • Size: 1 MB

A router is just like your local post office. You drop off your mail. If it is local you put it in one box… but all remote mail goes in the Out of Town box. In computers we call this the default gateway. Any time you try to send a transmission to another network… the router looks at it and realizes that it has to move the message from one network to another.

Sometimes it may not know the network you are sending it to… in which case it has to send the message to another network… and so on until it eventually reaches its destination.

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