What's the Difference Between a Modem and a Router?

Did You Know? The 1971 cult classic film Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory was financed by food mega-conglomerate Quaker Oats to promote their Wonka Bars; the bars proved unpopular and were off the shelves within a year, but the popularity of the movie endures. Geek Trivia On The First Day Of Winter Scientists At The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Watch What Film? The Thing → Whiteout → The Day After Tomorrow → The Shining → Advertisement Download Introduction to Windows 10 Security (a $24.95 value) FREE for a limited time An 87 page, fully updated guide to understanding security in Windows 10. Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? At some point in the past you subscribed to the How-To Geek newsletter, but if you'd like to change the frequency or unsubscribe, you can do so by clicking the button. Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles By popular request, we're including a quick list of the daily articles at the top of the daily email as well as the regular format near the bottom. How to Remove the Microsoft Office Upload Center from the Notification Area in Windows 10 Why iPhone Location Services Can Be More Helpful Than You Think How to Save an Offline Copy of a Web Page on an iPhone or Android Smartphone What’s the Difference Between a Modem and a Router? How to Make a Movie With iMovie on an iPhone or iPad How to Cut a Clip Out of a Video on an iPhone or iPad How to Create a Table Using the Keyboard in Word How to Disable Siri and Location Services on Apple TV How to Find Your Router’s IP Address on Any Computer, Smartphone, or Tablet Geek Comic Today's Tech Term VM Sprawl VM Sprawl (short for Virtual Machine Sprawl, a.k.a. Virtualization Sprawl) refers to the problem that occurs when the number of virtual machines in use exceeds a network’s capabilities to properly run them. What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. 'Payroll' Is A Vision of 'Office Space' From Windows '95 Payroll is best described as Wolfenstein 3D meets Office Space, with textures ripped straight from a surrealistic low-res office building and coworkers who titter away at you with the beeps and boops of an antiquated fax machine. [Motherboard] What was it like to be a Nintendo game play counselor? First hand interviews with people who worked for the fabled Nintendo game play tips line; if you were a gamer in the 1980-90s this is a nostalgic must-read. [The A.V. Club] Skype is the new Thanksgiving Is video chat a real replacement for sitting down to eat? [Kernel Mag] How Nostalgia Is Hurting the Future of Video Games The gaming industry can't seem to move beyond its lucrative, long-beloved franchises. [The Atlantic] The Generation That Doesn't Remember Life Before Smartphones A long form look at what it's like to grow up in a smartphone world [Popular Mechanics] How to Remove the Microsoft Office Upload Center from the Notification Area in Windows 10 The Microsoft Office Upload Center was a new feature added to Office 2010 and still available in Office 2013 and 2016. It allows you to manage documents you upload to OneDrive. If you upload a lot of documents at a time, this can be a helpful tool. Read This Article → Why iPhone Location Services Can Be More Helpful Than You Think With companies like Facebook finding themselves in hot water over their constant usage of the GPS inside your smartphone, we decided it was time to give you a few extra reasons why location services aren’t nearly as nefarious as they’ve been made out to be in the media. Read This Article → How to Save an Offline Copy of a Web Page on an iPhone or Android Smartphone Smartphones still don’t have Internet connections everywhere — and, even if they did, there are times you’ll want to save a copy of a web page. Modern iPhones and Android phones allow you to save copies of web pages so you can refer to them later. Read This Article → What’s the Difference Between a Modem and a Router? Many Internet service providers offer combined modem/router units, but a modem isn’t the same thing as a router. Understanding exactly what a modem is is important so you can buy your own modem and stop paying $8-$15 a month to rent one from your Internet service provider. Read This Article → How to Make a Movie With iMovie on an iPhone or iPad Apple’s iMovie application comes free with new iPhones and iPads. It allows you to make home videos, combining multiple clips, inserting photos, adding transitions, applying a soundtrack, and using other effects. Read This Article → How to Cut a Clip Out of a Video on an iPhone or iPad iPhones and iPads offer a built-in way to cut clips out of videos and trim them without installing any third-party apps. This is useful when you want to upload or share a video — but not the entire video. Read This Article → How to Create a Table Using the Keyboard in Word Creating tables in Word is easy using the commands on the ribbon. However, if you want to quickly create a table without removing your hands from the keyboard, you can easily create a basic table using the keyboard. Read This Article → How to Disable Siri and Location Services on Apple TV Apple is integrating Siri into everything and why not? It is a favorite of ours and works well whether it is on the Apple Watch or the iPhone or iPad. If you’re using an Apple TV however, you might want to disable it. Read This Article → How to Find Your Router’s IP Address on Any Computer, Smartphone, or Tablet Your router’s web-based setup page allows you to change various settings — like your Wi-Fi network’s name and password — and view information. You’ll need your router’s IP address to access it. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Drones for Dummies (FREE eBook Valued at $16.99) Plus a Chance to Win a Parrot Bebop Drone! Ready to soar into the world of unmanned aircraft? Drones For Dummies introduces you to the fascinating world of UAVs. 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