Rafi:

You said:

"shiney sue: a router is a device that sits in a gateway between at least networks. A gateway is just that point where any two networks meet. It is the job of the router to decide which way to send an information packet, based on the current state of the network.

Typically, in a home router setup, the router sits between your ISP (in other words, the internet) and a home network. This network may be just one computer or a number of them connected in a network. Routers can be wired or wireless. In order to use the internet on a notebook computer without being wired to a network, then you would use a wireless router. The wireless router is connected through an ethernet cable to your modem, and is connected to your notebook by use of a wireless adapter housed in the notebook."

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Rafi, do me a favor and translate these two paragraphs as if you were talking to a person who just learned how to use a computer.
For example, you said

"a router is a device that sits in a gateway between at least networks. A gateway is just that point where any two networks meet. It is the job of the router to decide which way to send an information packet, based on the current state of the network"

Now break down these two sentences and write them differently. I still don't understand "gateway is just that point where any two networks meet".
Put it as if you were talking to a completely stupid person (me). And I'm not stupid. But sometimes I just don't understand the computer speak. Like Information Packet, based on current state of network". Now, YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT!!! I don't...

Can you just simple it up for me. I won't be insulted. Believe me, I won't be insulted. Kind of like you are Tarzan and I'm Cheeta, and you are trying to teach me something.

Define, gateway, information packet, current state of the network.

I once asked my son 'what's a router"?. He started talking his computer speak and then he just gave up and said "mom, forget it, you won't understand". If he had said it in DUMB STUPID TERMINOLOGY, then I would have understood it.

Like for example, my 80 year old aunt said "I know what the internet is. It's a place where you go and speak to people in chatrooms and you talk about pornography". I said "are you out of your mind". That's not the internet!! But it's what she thought the internet was for. Then she asked me "Explain exactly what you do when you go on the computer and you go on the internet. And make it simple.

Now I could have said, "well, I sign on to AOL (this was 3 years ago by the way), I said "I sign onto AOL, I type in the url at the top of the page and I am instantly at the website of my choice" She would have looked at me like I was a martian. Instead I said "Well, I'm sitting in front of my computer, I press a button, I am looking at a screen, I type something in and I am at a website called American On Line. Then I type something in a certain place and immediately, I am looking at the place I want to be. And I can read whatever I am interested in. BY THE WAY, THIS CONVERSATION ACTUALLY HAPPENED. I was telling my aunt about a browser and she goes. What's a browser? And I said "Oh, imagine you are on a journey and you take a bus to your destination!!! The browser is what takes you the the website you want to go to" She said "OH, now I get it!!!"

It's all in the explanation. I wish I could understand the computer speak the same way as my son. That's never gonna happen.

Once I was having trouble getting to a website. My son (who was in California, sitting on his bed and HE WAS NOWHERE NEAR HIS COMPUTER), said to me: "mom, have you done any windows updates yet". and of course I said "No it does it automatically". and he said "No, let's get you updated".

Now of course I didn't know what he was talking about. Do you know that from his bed, he took me through like 30 steps (from the start menu, to the control panel, blah blah blah, he was able to view what I was watching on my screen, but he could do it in his mind (probably because he has aspergers), and he walked me through so many steps that I finally blurted out. "How on earth can you know what I'm doing, and you're not even in front of your computer"? He laughed and said "I can see it in my head". It's easy, I do it all the time. He lives on his computer.

Jeez. I would love to know computers like he does. He knows all about routers and wireless this, and external and internal modems.

Me?? I'm lucky I know how to use a dsl line.

lol
Melody
P.S. So Rafi,when you get a moment and you don't think I'm a dumbell, translate what you initally wrote, okay?? thanks,