Re: Who knows routers?

Darklight writes:
question was you belkin router for cable or phone line. If i am
correct the cable router is different from a phone line router.

I wrote:
You confound "router" and "modem". Many modems incorporate (buggy,
inferior) routers but they are two different things.

Van Chocstraw writes:
A cable modem is not a phone modem.

Nor is it a DSL modem or a radio modem. So what?
--
John Hasler
jhasler@xxxxxxxxxxx
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA
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