[Year 12 SofDev] Wireless routers

[Mark Kelly]

Yeah.  Every year I have to explain how a switch is _not_ the same as a 
router, since all the kids have a "router" at home with a switch in it.

Frank Van Den Boom wrote:
> ...more on the VITTA 2007 Sample 1 paper, which I think is a good paper 
> to do in which most questions are well pitched.
>  
> There is a question where you fill in the names of different components 
> in a LAN. The thing about this that surprised me is that the 
> scenario and solution refers to a 'wireless router'. Given that we try 
> to get kids to understand the role/function/capabilities/limitations etc 
> of switches, routers, firewalls, modems, I try to make a big deal with 
> my kids that the little black boxes they have at home integrate all 
> these functions into one box, but that they need to view them as 
> separate components. And that when people refer to their router, that 
> this is an over simplification of what it does. So, while I heard 
> someone say the other day that they had recently installed a router at 
> home where the broadband connection was actually wireless, the wireless 
> reference generally has nothing to do with the router, but rather the 
> switch.
>  
> Thoughts??
>  
> Frank


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