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southern MN | What is your internet source; cable, phone, sat, broadband, cell data?
From all of those goes to a modem, first box. Some modems are also routers so it could be a combo modem/ router. Do you own this box, or typically the internet company does.
From the modem comes a wire similar to a phone cord, this can go to a single computer, or it can go to a router which typically sends out a wireless WiFi signal as well as having 4 ports to hook up wired items.
The modem takes goofy tones and creates data a computer can understand.
A router takes that understandable signal and controls connecting several different devices to each other as well as to the internet as needed.
You have a modem.
You might not have a router if you have a wire directly into your computer!
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