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  2. Home network - Wikipedia

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    An example of a simple home network. Home networks may use either wired or wireless connectivity methods that are found and standardized on local area networks or personal area networks. One of the most common ways of creating a home network is by using wireless radio signal technology; the 802.11 network as certified by the IEEE.

  3. Residential gateway - Wikipedia

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    A residential gateway is a small consumer-grade gateway which bridges network access between connected local area network (LAN) hosts to a wide area network (WAN) (such as the Internet) via a modem, or directly connects to a WAN (as in EttH), while routing. The WAN is a larger computer network, generally operated by an Internet service provider.

  4. Mobile broadband modem - Wikipedia

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    USB broadband modems. A mobile broadband modem, also known as wireless modem or cellular modem, is a type of modem that allows a personal computer or a router to receive wireless Internet access via a mobile broadband connection instead of using telephone or cable television lines.

  5. Customer-premises equipment - Wikipedia

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    A residential gateway is a networking device used to connect devices in the home to the Internet or other wide area network (WAN). It is an umbrella term, used to cover multi-function networking appliances used in homes, which may combine a DSL modem or cable modem, a network switch, a consumer-grade router, and a wireless access point.

  6. DiY networking - Wikipedia

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    DIY networking is an umbrella term for different types of grassroots networking, [1] [2] [3] such as wireless community network, mesh network, ad-hoc network, stressing on the possibility that Wireless technology offers to create "offline" or "off-the-cloud" [4] local area networks (LAN), which can operate outside the Internet.

  7. Internet Connection Sharing - Wikipedia

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    Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) is a Windows service that enables one Internet-connected computer to share its Internet connection with other computers on a local area network (LAN). The computer that shares its Internet connection serves as a gateway device , meaning that all traffic between other computers and the Internet go through this ...

  8. Home networking - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 10 December 2007, at 00:16 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  9. SONiC (operating system) - Wikipedia

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    The Software for Open Networking in the Cloud or alternatively abbreviated and stylized as SONiC, is a free and open source network operating system based on Linux. It was originally developed by Microsoft and the Open Compute Project .