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RJ-11
RJ-11 is a fancy name for the modular connector
your telephone and/or modem uses to connect with
the telephone wiring of your home and/or office.
Before RJ-11 connectors, hooking up a phone meant
stripping wires, unscrewing the phone-jack box,
and connecting a spaghetti-like mess of multicolored
wires to the correct places. Thankfully, the many-colored
wires now feed into a convenient plastic clip,
the RJ-11 jack.
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router
A hardware device that acts as a gateway between
two or more networks. Routers, which are actually
types of computers (though their software is also
called a router), are designed to comprehend the
various protocols the respective networks use
-- a LAN may run on Ethernet, while the Internet
runs on TCP/IP -- and to translate as necessary
to route packets back and forth between the networks.
Routers have one of those thankless computing
jobs; when they're doing their job correctly,
you don't even know they're there.
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