Question: what is a wireless router? 

Answer: it's a device that connects your computer to other computers, say you want to have a computer upstairs and downstairs but you don't want the wires, you can create a network, then the two computers can "see each other" and there is less wires, since the router is acting as your modem now for both connections
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