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What is a legal gateway?

What is he difference between a modem and a gateway?!?

  • ok u c i just got a wireless gateway and from wut i understand a gateway has a router and a modem all in one....so when i connect it i just plug my phone line to my gateway and configure it and then it works, or do i need to buy a modem...plz HELP

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    Whoops, I've revised my answer ("brett_86" is correct): What brand is it? Apple Airport product line, for example, is just a router, not a modem. - - - - - Modem: converts the signal from the Cable/DSL line (that your internet provider installed in your house) into something your computer can understand. Router: is a device that allows multiple computers to connect to a internet connection that was set up to give access to only one machine. Gateway: combines both. (Eg.: your TV cable goes into the back, and multiple computers connect via Ethernet cables to the front) - - - - - One thing that is important here: all major residential internet providers only set up their internet service to allow ONE computer to connect at a time. That's why you want the router - then you can use more than one computer. So if your gateway has a TV-style coaxial port (and you subscribe to cable) or if your gateway has an telephone-style RJ11 port (and you subscribe to DSL) then you have everything you need.

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Gateway: A node on a network that serves as an entrance to another network. In enterprises, the gateway is the computer that routes the traffic from a workstation to the outside network that is serving the Web pages. In homes, the gateway is the ISP that connects the user to the Internet. In enterprises, the gateway node often acts as a proxy server and a firewall. The gateway is also associated with both a router, which use headers and forwarding tables to determine where packets are sent, and a switch, which provides the actual path for the packet in and out of the gateway. Modem: Short for MOdulator-DEModulator. A modem is a device or program that enables a computer to transmit data over, for example, telephone or cable lines. Computer information is stored digitally, whereas information transmitted over telephone lines is transmitted in the form of analog waves. A modem converts between these two forms.

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Yes and more info here...Look.

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I was hoping someone would answer.

Thinkaboutit

simply, you do not need a modem. your understanding is correct, a gateway is like a combination of a modem and a router, it connects you to the internet and will support a home network. depending on your isp there may be some configuration to be done in order to be able to connect to the internet.

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