Switch
hub and router
It's call a NIC (Network Interface Card)
It isn't, it is the same thing. The term 'Gateway' is used to depict the device that allows you to connect to devices outside of your network, as in you walk through a gate into the outside world. Fancy mumbo-jumbo really, just another word for the same device. Routers connect different networks, they route traffic between them. You can call them whatever you want, still the same device and the same function.
node
Yes, the wireless network adapter allows you to connect wireless with any device supporting it. Laptop come with network card and for old PC you have to buy it.
No. The modem is used to connect to an outside network (to the Internet); in other cases, an ADSL router is used, or some other device, depending on the type of Internet connection.To share devices within your network, the key device is either a hub or a switch.No. The modem is used to connect to an outside network (to the Internet); in other cases, an ADSL router is used, or some other device, depending on the type of Internet connection.To share devices within your network, the key device is either a hub or a switch.No. The modem is used to connect to an outside network (to the Internet); in other cases, an ADSL router is used, or some other device, depending on the type of Internet connection.To share devices within your network, the key device is either a hub or a switch.No. The modem is used to connect to an outside network (to the Internet); in other cases, an ADSL router is used, or some other device, depending on the type of Internet connection.To share devices within your network, the key device is either a hub or a switch.
A network ready device is a device that has the potential to connect to a network, natively it isn't connected to a network, nor is it a network, but with the appropriate configuration and possibly with the addition of components could be connected.
A switch box
Specialized Device for exchanging data amongst class based Networks & Subnetted (multiple parts of one network) is Router.
A modem allows your computer to connect to a phone line.
NIC (Network Interface Card)
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