Re: Hello Tom, Thanks very much - Going to instal DSL anything particular with JAWS?
- From: "Tom Lange" <trlange@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 11:42:05 -0800
Hi Alan,
You wrote:
Hello Tom
Thanks for your response!!
I am just now checking my JAWS messages Folder, and I appreciate your
help.
Well, I understand a lot of what you write, not all but "Keep it simple" I
understand (Smile)
I do not know what a "router " is sorry, missed that somewhere in my 20
years of computing (Smile once again)
Okay, let me see if I can explain this simply without a lot of technical
mumbo-jumbo. Let's say you have a DSL or cable connection coming into your
house/apartment, and let's say that your computer will be sharing that
connection with other computers on the premises. The easiest way to do this
is by using a router. The router connects to the DSL or cable modem and is
given a unique address on the Internet when the Internet connection is up
and running. . It also has several connectors for cables which will run to
your computer and the others in your house. It may also have wireless
capability so that other devices can connect to the router without using
cables. Okay, so you have logged on to your computer, and when the router
sees your machine, it is given a unique address to which data is routed.
When someone else in the house fires up his/her machine and logs on to the
Internet, his/her machine is also given a unique address to which data is
routed. And so it goes for every other machine that connects to the router.
Let's say that you're checking your e-mail or doing a Google search, and
let's say that the other person is doing an online game at a completely
different web site. Both machines are sending requests for data and in turn
receiving data, and it's basically the router's job to play traffic cop, as
it were, It ensures that both of you can send out separate requests for
information through the common Internet connection that you're sharing, and
it also ensures that the data coming to you is directed back to you properly
and doesn't get sent to the other machine by mistake.
The router can also manage the task of logging on to the Internet for you
and keeping the Internet connection up and running.
It also can ensure that no machines out there on the Internet can send
unauthorized data to you or try to get access to your files.
It's a pretty neat little box that's extremely handy.
Hopefully that clarifies things a bit. Write back if you have more
questions.
Tom
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