Choose a router if your provider has not provided it to you;
it's cheap ($ 40 to $ 80) and saves you days of hair pain because it keeps most
worms out of your network. With a router, none of your computers have to worry
about connecting to the internet - the router handles it.
The routers are available in both wired and wireless
versions. The wired versions have a variable number of sockets, the wireless
ones have a socket for the modem cable, an antenna for the wireless network,
and usually a few sockets for routing cables to computers in the same room.
For some perverse reason, wireless routers are generally
cheaper than wired ones, although wireless ones include everything that wired
ones do plus wireless radio. So get yourself a wireless router. If you need
more jacks than your router has, get a cheap switch as well; run a cable from
one of its jacks to one of the jacks on your router and it'll all be one big
happy network.
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Rent or buy?
Many providers will offer you to rent a modem, router, or
both, typically for the low, low price of $ 5 per month each. This is rarely a
good deal. You can buy your router or modem at a large box store for around $
75, and some arithmetic calculations reveal that you'll be saving money after a
year and a half. The technology of modems and routers is slowly changing, and
the ones you get now should serve you for five years or more.
If you have a DSL service from the telephone company, they
will invariably provide the modem at no additional cost because it must match
whatever DSL equipment you use eventually. Cable modems, on the other hand, are
fully standardized using a specification called DOCSIS. The only question is
whether to get DOCSIS version 2 or 3, with the answer 3 because it is faster.