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Comment by BenjiWiebe

4 hours ago

I for one find it simpler and better to have a single router for multiple computers to talk among themselves, rather than daisy chaining serial ports (or how did you accomplish that back in the day ie before Ethernet?)

> I for one find it simpler and better to have a single router for multiple computers to talk among themselves

That's not what a router does. A router provides communication between two (or, theoretically, more) different networks.

Multiple computers talking among themselves would generally all be on the same network. (Or, if they're not, you'd put a whole mesh of redundant routers between them.)