Hollow rock turns into a router full of survival info when you build a fire beside it

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The funny part is when the artist thinks the metal plate was his biggest mistake.

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I can see the merit in the solar powered cellular base station which allows only emergency calls, but to any phone. You could build it into a hut, or conceal it in the bush,

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It’ll be crows. The dinosaurs will take over the world again.

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isn’t this layer 2? so more a switch/hub?

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So you don’t use IPV4, IPV6, or AppleTalk on a lan? Granted, wifi appears a lot like a hub at layer 2. I do a lot of network segmentation, so maybe my view on it is different. You could probably live in layers 1 and 2 and get things to work, but the device is still capable of layer 3 routing, and is therefor a router.

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a router is a gateway between two or more layer 3 networks - a typical hotspot is normally not able to play this role between different nets (say 192.168.0.0/24 and 192.168.1.0/24 in the IPv4 world)

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A “hotspot” as such isn’t. I don’t want to quibble. My home WAP has 2 vlans, one for network traffic and one for management. It’s a router, a managed switch, etc, all in one unit.

My initial statement was based upon the comment that the device technically wasn’t a router because it wasn’t connected to the Internet at large. If you want to get into protocols and where they fit into the OSI model or whatever, sure we can go on about that as well.

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