how does changing my standard wifi router to a different router works

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I’m autistic and not very good at either understanding or if I do it’s hard to repeat the information to other people. I’m asking this to explain how it works for my mom and dad.

Edit to explain a bit more sorry.
I want to change the router to improve the strength and speed. Hopefully this pins it down a little bit better at what I’m after. Thank you for people that have already commented.

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Are you asking because your internet provider is sending an upgrade? or… why do you want to replace your wifi router? In any case:

Most home wifi routers these days are combination devices – they are both a wifi hub (the thing that provides wifi for your house) and a gateway/router (the thing that provides internet for all devices in your house, whether they’re directly plugged in to the router OR over the wifi) AND lastly an internet modem – the thing that converts the digital signals from your computers and phones and tablets into the signals that go out over the phone or cable wires to actually connect to the internet. Back in the day these were 2 or 3 separate boxes, but now most home internet just has a single box that does all 3 things.

Why replace it? It could be your internet provider is upgrading their equipment (faster, better, whatever) – and they have to upgrade your wifi/router/modem so it can talk (or talk most efficiently/fastly) with their equipment. Or, you might want to upgrade/replace your wifi/router/modem because you want to improve the wifi signal strength or speed in your home. If you have recently upgraded to a new faster home internet plan (maybe 75GB/s from 25GB/s or whatever), that means their equipment can already handle the faster speed, but your modem can’t, so it had to be upgraded.

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