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.
The next time a local sports team falls short of the promised land (weâre guessing you wonât have to wait too long), just remember: It could be worse. We could be Cleveland. Thatâs the most cursed sports town in America, according to a New York Times analysis published Thursday. Theyâve suffered through a cumulative 147 professional sports seasons without a championship, dating back to 1965. The Twin Cities, with 87 empty seasons to our name (we are, after all, the losingest sports town of the past decade.), are down at No. 6 on the list of 13.