On 29 Jan, 00:38, Rookie <roo...@hates.spam> wrote:
> gecko <al...@olympus.net> wrote in news:orssp31a9fp486bsdhsqndcojom8a3monf@
> 4ax.com:
>
> > I notice that Switches and Routers are being marketed to do what looks
> > like pretty much the same thing. *What is the difference? *Why would
> > one choose one over the other?
>
> > Thanks
>
> > Gecko
>
> Router connects your network to another network so that information can be
> routed, a switch basically bonds two networks together. The first is OSI
> Layer 3, the second OSI Layer 2.
>
> You choose switches to connect computers within your network, routers to
> connect your network to another.
>
> That is a very basic explanation.

do you think your explanation is crap?

else why have it dissapear from the archive?