On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 08:57:11 -0500, Mark Lloyd
wrote:

On 04/17/2018 06:23 PM, Ken Blake wrote:

[snip]

And in the US, there are also many people who do the same thing. One
day they may turn out to be right, and only combination devices will
be available. But that day hasn't come yet, and as far as I'm
concerned, calling such a combination a router is still wrong, and is
likely to confuse many people.

Even without a modem, a "router" often contains an ethernet switch and a
wireless access point.



Yes, and of course that make it a combination device. But since almost
all routers these days contain both of these, that usage of the word
"router" doesn't bother me anywhere near as much as calling a
modem/router combination a router.