Why computer can't access internet without router

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Parth786

Joined Jun 19, 2017
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This is very basic knowledge that anyone with even a limited exposure to technology should know.
I don't think, I have studied all things in pieces whenever I try to figure out them together but I can not do it. There are two different things to just read and experience in real life. I believe we gain experience with time.
 

eetech00

Joined Jun 8, 2013
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My question was , what is in the mobile phone so that we do not need to buy router to use internet. why can't do this with computer.
Hi again,:)

Generally speaking, computers don't have built in electronics that allow internet connectivity "out of the box". You have to buy the connectivity as add-on functionality. The connectivity comes in the form of a WIFI router, or, for cellular connectivity, an "Air" cell card that plugs into the computer. Sometimes you even have to add an ethernet network adapter.

Your mobile phone has built in electronics that allow it to connect to a cellular network via cell towers placed in various locations
throughout the country by network services providers. Todays cell phones are internet ready out of the box. So, all you need to do is subscribe
a cellular service and both voice and data connectivity is provided. I can remember though, in the earlier days, when cell phones could only provide voice service and couldn't be used for data (or internet). Now its so easy the younger generation thinks it has always been that way.:D

Hope that helps

eT
 
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mufet

Joined Jan 11, 2018
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because router creates the network. router is a device that is capable of sending and receiving data packets between computer networks,
 
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