Router vs. Modem — What's the Difference?

A power tool with a shaped cutter, used in carpentry for making grooves for joints, decorative mouldings, etc.

A modulator-demodulator, or simply a modem, is a hardware device that converts data from a digital format, intended for communication directly between devices with specialized wiring, into one suitable for a transmission medium such as telephone lines or radio. A modem modulates one or more carrier wave signals to encode digital information for transmission, and demodulates signals to decode the transmitted information.

A device which forwards data packets to the appropriate parts of a computer network.

A device that transmits and receives data using a modulated carrier wave. Modems are used to establish network and internet connections.

One that routs, especially a machine tool that mills out the surface of metal or wood.

A device that encodes digital computer signals into analog/analogue telephone signals and vice versa and allows computers to communicate over a phone line.

One that routes, especially one who prepares shipments for distribution and delivery.

To transmit by modem.

A device in a network that handles message transfers between computers.

An electronic device that converts electronic signals into sound waves, and sound waves into electronic signals, used to transmit information between computers by the use of ordinary telephone lines; also called modulator-demodulator; as, the latest modems can transmit data at 56,000 baud over a clear telephone line. The speed of transmission of information by a modem is usually measured in units of baud, equivalent to bits per second.

See gateway.

(from a combination of MOdulate and DEModulate) electronic equipment consisting of a device used to connect computers by a telephone line

Someone who routes or directs items from one location to another.

(telecommunications) Any device that directs packets of information using the equivalent of Open Systems Interconnection layer 3 (network layer) information. Most commonly used in reference to Internet Protocol routers.

(Internet) A device that connects local area networks to form a larger internet by, at minimum, selectively passing those datagrams having a destination IP address to the network which is able to deliver them to their destination; a network gateway.

In integrated circuit or printed circuit board design, an algorithm for adding all wires needed to properly connect all of the placed components while obeying all design rules.

A power tool used in carpentry for cutting grooves.

A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes.

A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity.

To hollow out or cut using a router power tool.

A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes.

A machine with a rapidly revolving vertical spindle and cutter for scooping out the surface of wood or metal, as between and around the engraved parts of an electrotype.

A worker who routes shipments for distribution and delivery

(computer science) a device that forwards data packets between computer networks

A power tool with a shaped cutter; used in carpentry for cutting grooves