Posted by Vince on 11/4/2009, 3:00 pm, in reply to "Re: What is a router?"
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G-> [ Ok...when you say everyone in the household,you mean if they are on their own computers right? ]
Yes, exactly.
G-> [ cuz right now everyone here (only hubby) just walks in and uses it and it don't know who is on.. how could it tell hubby from me? ]
Ahhmm ... yeah. Your IP provider has NO IDEA who is using your computer. Regardless of whether you and your husband have separate logons to the same computer, your IP provider (or anyone on the internet) has no idea of your individual identities. The ONLY way that sites can differentiate between the two of you is by the use of cookies. The sites send you cookies and track your behavior by following cookies and from that ........... get a fairly good idea of what "you" (the cookie people) are doing and what you like individually. So they might give hubby fishing ads and you, dinnerware ads because they track him going to fishing sites and you to dinnerware sites. This is ONLY if you have individual logons though. If both of you use the computer without logging off and back on ........ the trackers just assume that you're a strange person who likes fishing and dinnerware.
G-> [ But if I get a router I can connect two computers together and we can be on at the same time. sounds good. ]
Yeah. The computers aren't actually connected together; they're both connected to the router which -in turn- enables communication to occur between them.
I think you'll like it a lot. You will probably find that ONE of the computers will be best connected by wireless to the router. (That means buying and installing a wireless card to the computer furthest away from the router). It's not absolutely NECESSARY to do it that way -a cabled connection still works better than wireless- but ...... it saves snaking a long cable from the router to that second remote computer.
-Vince
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