What is the difference between a wireless router and a wireless modem?
Good question! A wireless modem provides a way to connect to the internet through an Internet Service Provider (ISP). In the “old days”, if you wanted to connect to the internet, you had to have your computer connected to a modem that had access to a telephone line to dial in to your ISP for an internet connection. Modern technology allows you to use a cell phone modem to do the same thing. A cell phone modem is called a wireless modem. So you can take you computer, usually a laptop computer, anywhere there is cell phone service and connect to the internet, like a cell phone dial up connection. A wireless modem allows one computer, usually a mobile computer like a laptop, to connect to the internet from just about anywhere that there is cell phone service. Some people use wireless modems to connect their home PCs to the internet because there is no other service available at their homes. A wireless router is a way for you to share one internet connection, usually at a home or small off
