Would i ever need a WAN router? If so, why?
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A "wide area network." It is different from LAN because WAN can cover streets, cities or even countries (dont jump to conclusions when i say country). where as LAN is for a room, house or building.
This is a weird response to my question.
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WAN=wide area network (the internet is a WAN) a LAN (local area network) is what most people use for their homes and small business. WAN's are used when you need to network over longer distances than a LAN can handle (max cable run issues). So if you wanted to link a college campus together you would use a combination of LAN and WAN. The LAN for each building and the WAN to link them together. This is a very simplified overview of what in my opinion a WAN is. So a WAN router could be used to go from your LAN to the WAN and vice versa.
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getochkn
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jrrdmchls :
Google is your friend
http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=dual-wan+router&tag=googhydr-20&index=aps&hvadid=76240447404&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=18022947236125184030&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_8yicr0it0v_b
That's a normal router with 2 WAN or internet ports. Just a router.
Still waiting to see what a specific WAN Router is........
getochkn :
jrrdmchls :
Google is your friend
http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=dual-wan+router&tag=googhydr-20&index=aps&hvadid=76240447404&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=18022947236125184030&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_8yicr0it0v_b
That's a normal router with 2 WAN or internet ports. Just a router.
Still waiting to see what a specific WAN Router is........
yah i dont understand. I want to know if performance would be different in a house? Also why I should get which?
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getochkn :
jrrdmchls :
Google is your friend
http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=dual-wan+router&tag=googhydr-20&index=aps&hvadid=76240447404&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=18022947236125184030&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_8yicr0it0v_b
That's a normal router with 2 WAN or internet ports. Just a router.
Still waiting to see what a specific WAN Router is........
Does not the fact that it has two WAN ports and its a router qualify as a WAN Router???
getochkn
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jrrdmchls :
getochkn :
jrrdmchls :
Google is your friend
http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=dual-wan+router&tag=googhydr-20&index=aps&hvadid=76240447404&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=18022947236125184030&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_8yicr0it0v_b
That's a normal router with 2 WAN or internet ports. Just a router.
Still waiting to see what a specific WAN Router is........
Does not the fact that it has two WAN ports and its a router qualify as a WAN Router???
The fact that a router has 1WAN port would qualify it, and since all consumer level routers have a WAN port, since that is their purpose, to route, they are all WAN routers.
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Kishan25 :
getochkn :
jrrdmchls :
Google is your friend
http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=dual-wan+router&tag=googhydr-20&index=aps&hvadid=76240447404&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=18022947236125184030&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_8yicr0it0v_b
That's a normal router with 2 WAN or internet ports. Just a router.
Still waiting to see what a specific WAN Router is........
yah i dont understand. I want to know if performance would be different in a house? Also why I should get which?
For home use a WAN router wouldn't make sense. You dont have two WAN's to route. (Your home network=LAN and Internet= WAN) Now lets say your a really big company with 5 buildings. Each building has its own LAN and they are connected to the company's WAN at a central hub. At the hub i could see the need for a WAN router as the hub would act as the mediator between the two WAN's ( The Company's WAN and the Internet)
I don't know if this is correct or not that's just my guesstimate of the situation for the need of a WAN router.
getochkn
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Daul WAN routers just allow you to have two internet connections going in, usually one as a backup. If you run a store and rely on the internet for your whole POS system, then if the net goes down, you can't do any business, so having a second connection as a backup, would allow business to continue.
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no, he is using it incorrectly. A WAN router would be a router that operates across a WAN, and manages connections in the WAN. If anything a home router is a LAN router, because it manages a LAN. Technically you don't need a WAN port on a router, you could make it work with just custom settings on the router and on each device on the network and use the router as a switch.
But it makes it much much easier to setup with a WAN port. The WAN port will have its own IP address, which is very useful because that can be assigned a dynamic IP from your ISP's DHCP server. Then you can have an internal LAN IP address for the router to access the GUI somewhat securely(even without https/etc). A home router with 2 WAN ports would probably have a setting to automatically route internet traffic to the other WAN network it is connected to if one of the fails. Or it may allow you to router certain types of traffic, or traffic from certain machines on the LAN, through a particular WAN port. Would depend on how the manufacture designed the routers firmware.
WAN routers would be the big super expensive ciscos/etc ISP's use I would say. Though I don't think that is the technical term...but those operate on a WAN and manage part of the WAN.
Whatever the router manages would be what it is. If it manages the WAN, then WAN router. if it manages the LAN, lan router, etc etc. Your' ISP would kick you off the network if you start trying to route WAN traffic on what is their network.
But it makes it much much easier to setup with a WAN port. The WAN port will have its own IP address, which is very useful because that can be assigned a dynamic IP from your ISP's DHCP server. Then you can have an internal LAN IP address for the router to access the GUI somewhat securely(even without https/etc). A home router with 2 WAN ports would probably have a setting to automatically route internet traffic to the other WAN network it is connected to if one of the fails. Or it may allow you to router certain types of traffic, or traffic from certain machines on the LAN, through a particular WAN port. Would depend on how the manufacture designed the routers firmware.
WAN routers would be the big super expensive ciscos/etc ISP's use I would say. Though I don't think that is the technical term...but those operate on a WAN and manage part of the WAN.
Whatever the router manages would be what it is. If it manages the WAN, then WAN router. if it manages the LAN, lan router, etc etc. Your' ISP would kick you off the network if you start trying to route WAN traffic on what is their network.
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WAN, because the modem exists on the WAN network. WAN objects connect to the WAN, LAN objects connect to the LAN.
WAN == internet in your case
LAN == your personal networked devices
WAN == internet in your case
LAN == your personal networked devices
Your largest problem is you using the terms incorrectly. A router is the simplest sense transfers data between different layer 2 subents. The concept of how far it goes has very little to do with the actual device. The router really doesn't care if the 2 subnet are in the same building or in different countries it just forwards traffic between them. The terms WAN and LAN tend to be used in many ways. Many companies call the network between building is a large city their LAN other call it WAN and even more confusing some call it MAN. It still makes little difference other than maybe you have different physical interfaces say for different types of fiber
Maybe a better observation is all the devices people buy in the local electronics store to use to connect to the internet are not actually routers. These devices are best called gateways because most can only take a single subnet and translate all those address to a single external IP address. So they are very limited routers that you likely could never use as a actual wan or lan router.
The true devices that are routers tend to be very flexible in their use. For example the main device used by many ISP to connect to other ISP is the same device a large company might use to run their data center or to run a large building. Mostly it depends on which features you are using as to if the box is LAN of WAN......and of course how you choose to define those terms.
For a home user pretty much everything you use is best called a gateway.
Maybe a better observation is all the devices people buy in the local electronics store to use to connect to the internet are not actually routers. These devices are best called gateways because most can only take a single subnet and translate all those address to a single external IP address. So they are very limited routers that you likely could never use as a actual wan or lan router.
The true devices that are routers tend to be very flexible in their use. For example the main device used by many ISP to connect to other ISP is the same device a large company might use to run their data center or to run a large building. Mostly it depends on which features you are using as to if the box is LAN of WAN......and of course how you choose to define those terms.
For a home user pretty much everything you use is best called a gateway.
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