{"id":790,"date":"2025-08-19T13:57:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T17:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secv.com\/blog\/?p=790"},"modified":"2025-07-31T14:04:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T18:04:24","slug":"tech-talk-2-what-is-the-difference-between-a-modem-and-a-router","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secv.com\/blog\/tech-talk-2-what-is-the-difference-between-a-modem-and-a-router\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Talk #2 &#8211; What is the difference between a modem and a router?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A modem is the device that connects your home to the Internet.\u00a0 It converts the signals between your Internet Service Provider\u2019s (ISP) network and your home network.<\/p>\n<p>A router distributes the Internet connection from your modem to the devices in your home via an Ethernet cable or Wi-Fi. It also provides security features like firewalls and parental controls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A modem is the device that connects your home to the Internet.\u00a0 It converts the signals between your Internet Service Provider\u2019s (ISP) network and your home network. A router distributes the Internet connection from your modem to the devices in your home via an Ethernet cable or Wi-Fi. It also provides security features like firewalls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awareness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.secv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":791,"href":"https:\/\/www.secv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}