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At the behest of the Computing, the router, also known as router, router, or router it's a hardware device used to interconnect a computer network; operates in the layer three of the OSI Model. The main virtue What this device offers us is the assurance regarding the satisfactory routing of data packets between networks. Or failing that, it helps to find the best route which should take the data packet in question.

Routers primarily provide a solution to connectivity within companies, between companies and Internet and within internet service providers. Meanwhile, they also observe a domestic use that proliferates more every day, to connect homes to the internet service of broadband, such is the case of IP over cable or over ADSL, however, in terms of the functionality they propose, which is similar To the generic router, routers used in homes or residential routers use a translation of direction rather than routing. Because the residential router instead of connecting the computers to the network directly will have to make the local computers look like a single

Although originally and traditionally routers have dealt with fixed networks, in recent times they have become very popular are those routers that interface between fixed networks and mobile networks (Wi-Fi, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, among others). The wireless router, as it is formally called, shares the beginning of traditional routers although it differs from its predecessors in that it allows the connection of wireless devices to the networks to which the router is connected from connections by cable.