How can a router enhance my librarys network performance?
Tip: You have seen the pictures of the networking closet that has colored cables running everywhere — cables interconnecting mysterious boxes and then disappearing into the walls. It looks more like a high tech spider web than your high performance network. And exactly what are these cables interconnecting? You know one end terminates at your workstation but where does it go from there? It is time to start learning about your network and one key device in it – your router. A router is a device that connects two or more networks together. These networks can consist of local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs) or a combination of the two, such as a non-profit LAN connecting to a service provider. Routers have two or more interfaces that each connect to a network. When data is sent from your computer to a different network, the router receives that data on its interface (which is also the default gateway). The router then determines the best route to reach the destination add
