WiFi Modem?

What are the features which allow a device to be referred to as a WiFi "Modem"?

Different from a router? ..an amplifier? Does it have another more common name?

On December 12, my small town completed deployment of a citywide free wireless network. The "modem" (Peplink Surf) suggested for those that have trouble connecting is described here:

The network is working. Inside my house, the internal wireless card in my laptop cannot access the signals, but an external Hawking USB HWU54D adapter receives at 40% to 50%, and is pretty stable.

I'm curious about the "modem", (which I'd never heard of) in case things change when all the trees get populated with leaves.

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Posted 5 years ago by Barbara in Wireless Networking

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