What specific section or headline is this issue about?
A simple network
What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?
The paragraph that follows the 45 interconnected networked computers states that this problem can be solved by connecting all computers to a router.
My understanding is that a router is a device that sends packets on to an external network if they are not destined for a local address.
What did you expect to see?
The device that allows all machines on a local network to connect together is a switch or a hub, which itself will then connect to a router to send all of the packets from those local machines to the external network.
Do you have any supporting links, references, or citations?
I realise that this might introduce a level of complexity that we wish to avoid in a beginner's guide, but it would make the article much more useful in education settings (I'm a computer science teacher in the UK) as we otherwise have to address these slight inaccuracies once students have read the article for a general introduction.
MDN URL
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Common_questions/How_does_the_Internet_work
What specific section or headline is this issue about?
A simple network
What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?
The paragraph that follows the 45 interconnected networked computers states that this problem can be solved by connecting all computers to a router.
My understanding is that a router is a device that sends packets on to an external network if they are not destined for a local address.
What did you expect to see?
The device that allows all machines on a local network to connect together is a switch or a hub, which itself will then connect to a router to send all of the packets from those local machines to the external network.
Do you have any supporting links, references, or citations?
https://www.cisco.com/c/en_uk/solutions/small-business/resource-center/networking/network-switch-vs-router.html#~switches
https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/network-layer/what-is-a-network-switch/
Do you have anything more you want to share?
I realise that this might introduce a level of complexity that we wish to avoid in a beginner's guide, but it would make the article much more useful in education settings (I'm a computer science teacher in the UK) as we otherwise have to address these slight inaccuracies once students have read the article for a general introduction.
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* Folder: `en-us/learn/common_questions/how_does_the_internet_work` * MDN URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Common_questions/How_does_the_Internet_work * GitHub URL: https://github.com/mdn/content/blob/main/files/en-us/learn/common_questions/how_does_the_internet_work/index.md * Last commit: https://github.com/mdn/content/commit/904cdf09c7e328b7a15a6a4db6bc6bd31f969cce * Document last modified: 2022-09-09T05:00:53.000Z