Creative Crop/Photodisc/Getty Images. Definition: Routers are small physical devices that join multiple networks together. Technically, a router is a Layer 3 gateway device, meaning that it connects two or more networks and that the router operates at the network layer of the OSI model.ome networks typically use a wireless or wired Internet Protocol (IP) router, IP being the most common OSI network layer protocol. An IP router such as a DSL or cable modem broadband router joins the home's local area network (LAN) to the wide-area network (WAN) of the Internet.
St. Louis, Missouri. Midwestern traditional basketball cities without NBA teams, Take Two. St. Louis is the third-largest metro area without an NBA team, after Seattle and San Diego. As Kansas City is the traditional seat of Big Eight basketball, so too is St. Louis with the Missouri Valley Conference.
But the team they are playing the Cleveland Cavaliers reside in a city that has gone 50 years without a major sports title. Here are the longest current droughts in sports. When you think âdecades without a championship,â you probably think of the Chicago Cubs, who havenât won a World Series in more than 100 years.