Since the advent of the home and office networks (LANS), the Router has become a necessary item. If you are interested in connecting to the internet and share this internet connection with everyone on your home or office network, a router is a must. The router makes it simple for your local LAN to connect to the complex network such as the internet, which is actually a wide area network.
A router is, therefore, basically a device which connects two different LANs/ WANs. It routes the relevant traffic from one LAN/WAN on to the other LAN/WAN and avoids data congestion. Hence, only the relevant data from one LAN/WAN is delivered error free on to the other LAN/WAN.
Apart from connecting to the Internet the router is used to split a home LAN network, so that it functions more efficiently. If there is more diverse traffic on your LAN you must consider splitting up a single large LAN into smaller LANs and join them together using the switches and router. This will make working on the LAN faster and more efficient, by reducing the congestion of traffic on the network. With this configuration, both the LANs will have the traffic divided between them and this will help reduce the traffic on the LANs.
A router is an intelligent device which can figure our which traffic is meant for which particular LAN/WAN. In order to accomplish this task the router builds a set of routing tables which enables it know the addresses of its neighbouring routers, in a multiple network environment. It determines from these tables as to which is the shortest route to reach the destination and sends the data packets via that route. This job is somewhat akin to that of a courier company trying to figure out from the destination addresses as to which is the best method and route to send the client’s packets speedily.
The Adsl router you purchased in order to connect your computer to the internet is one such device. The router portion of the ADSL box helps you to connect your home computer network to the internet. This, in effect, means that the router helps to connect the home LAN (local area network) to the internet WAN (wide area network).
Once your router is connected to your computer and the phone line, you must configure your router in the proper manner. Visit our blog again as we cover this aspect in another post.
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