When you send an email to someone across the world, how does the message get to that point and not to any of the other millions of computers connected?. Much of the work to carry a message from one point to another is made by routers. Router router means, ie "form" of the road or path.
Unlike an Ethernet LAN
-The router ensures that information does not go where there is no need
-The router ensures that information if it reaches the
The router will connect the networks of the sender and recipient certain information (email, website, ...) and also between them only transmit the necessary information.
Packet When setting up a telephone conversation, it creates a direct connection between your origin and your destination, if the cable from the phone company is going from source to destination is a problem, it will be impossible to establish the call. The movement of information on the Internet works differently, first information (emails, website or whatever) is split into smaller units or "packets" (about 1,500 bytes per packet). Each packet carries information on the origin, destination and place of that package in the total information transmitted (for whom the message can be reconstructed correctly) and information and confirm their arrival at destination.
The router will analyze the packet by packet source and destination and will seek the shortest path from one to another. This way of transmitting information has great advantages:
-The router is able to see if a route does not work and find an alternative.
-The router is even able to find the quickest route (eg one that has less traffic) should be able to choose among several possibilities.
This makes the Internet a very robust system for sending information.
types of routers There are several types of routers, to include:
If you use a PC with Windows 98 or later to share an Internet connection, the PC will be doing basic router functionality. Will just see if the information packets are intended for external PC or other group.
more sophisticated routers, and in fact the most used, do more, including protecting our network from outside traffic, and are capable of handling far more traffic. That is why they are the typical choice in small networks, and even at home users.
more powerful routers, which are spread all over the Internet for managing traffic, handling a volume of millions of packets per second and optimizing the paths between origin and destination.
On the Internet, as we mentioned, there are thousands of routers that work, along with ours, to find the fastest route from one point to another. If you have a router on your Internet connection, this search for the optimal router to reach a recipient, and the optimal router will seek to turn the next best to reach the recipient. Say it's a great team.
To see how many routers are involved with us and, for example, some of these websites recommended AdslFaqs, TecnologiaIT, DirectorioMint or AdslHelp , we can use a simple tool in our system. Simply go to an MS-DOS window (Windows) or Terminal (Linux ) and type:
and we will see a list of routers that have intervened so that we can connect to this site and also will indicate the time taken for each router to "think" the next step of the route.
Both routers as the most sophisticated medium to configure what information we want you to enter or leave your PC or network. If we want to expand the scope of control should add a device called a Firewall (firewall).
Router, which literally means "router" in the world of computers is a device that selects paths (or routes) in computer networks to send them information. In technical terms are carried over "packages" of information from its source to a destination through "nodes" intermediaries, which in this case is the router as a physical device in question. In simple terms, we see the router in homes and offices serves as wireless networking, which in practical terms is normally used to connect to the Internet without the need to physically connect a cable to our computers (although as we will see is only one of the applications of these devices.)
The job of a router is possible to identify two missions. First ensures that information sent by the issuer will not place unnecessary. And second is concerned that the information is specifically the recipient. To successfully execute its work, the router connecting the networks of the sender and receiver of information given, where only the sender transmits ordered.
The transmission of information sent from a sender to a receiver is divided into what are known as packages. Each packet is about 1500 bytes. They carry information to the receiver. The router is responsible for reviewing all the packages that make up the message in its entirety and from this search for the shortest and fastest way to send information to its destination. This mode of transmission has two major advantages. First, the router can distinguish those routes that are not effective and therefore may find a better option. And secondly it is able to select the fastest route to deliver information, such as having less traffic.
Several routers used in the world of connectivity; The core routers are responsible for the analysis if data packets are destined outside or to another computer. The more complex routers (which are the most used), in addition to the work of the basics, you are responsible for protecting the network from outside traffic. Finally there is a more powerful type of router that handle a number of million packets per second. These make the source and destination paths lack traffic turning optimal transmission of messages.
Although as we have discussed are associated with wireless routers, the truth is that its function began in the fixed networks, and only emerged over time as wireless models massifies use Internet-related, but based his work remains the routing computer networks, which can have several applications.
For home use a router, the figure is simple: An Internet connection, broadband coming into the home through a cable or dedicated phone line - this connection usually goes through a modem in charge of processing the signal, and the latter is connected to a computer and a router. It must properly configure the router using the computer with which there is direct connection, and hopefully assign a password to the network so that our neighbors will not connect without authorization from the same, so as to ensure optimum performance and speed.