{"id":614,"date":"2019-10-03T16:21:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T20:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/?page_id=614"},"modified":"2019-11-25T11:43:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T16:43:29","slug":"networking","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/knowledge-base\/networking\/","title":{"rendered":"Networking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Connecting multiple devices to a single Ethernet connection can be done using a hub or switch. <strong>Do not use a router or any wireless access point as they are prohibited on the BU network.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the difference between a hub, a switch, and a router?<\/strong> A router uses \u201cNetwork Address Translation\u201d (NAT) and does not work properly on the BU Residential Network. Instead, you want a \u201cswitch\u201d or a \u201chub\u201d \u2014 different variations on the same theme, with the key point that they do <strong>not<\/strong> do their own network address translation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connecting multiple devices to a single Ethernet connection can be done using a hub or switch. Do not use a router or any wireless access point as they are prohibited on the BU network. What is the difference between a hub, a switch, and a router? A router uses \u201cNetwork Address Translation\u201d (NAT) and does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1441,"featured_media":0,"parent":82,"menu_order":17,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1441"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/614\/revisions\/615"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}