Talk:Residential gateway

message: What's with all the talk of the Linux OS here? It is unnecessary. If Linux is mentioned, so should the multitude of other operating systems (some of which are used more often for routers, such as FreebSD).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.228.174.30 (talk) 12:58, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Linux OS? 

message: I don't agree with most of what this page talks about.  Like it does mention at one point, the term "residential gateway" is really an older term used to describe less featured home devices.  However, just because these devices lacked (or still lack) some of the features of "actual routers" does not mean they are not routers.  If a device can route traffic from one network to another, like from a Home LAN to the Internet (WAN) then its a router.  Does not matter if it lacks some of the features bigger name routers do.  Another issue I have with this article is the term "gateway".  A gateway is a device or program that converts one protocol to another.  I do not believe any of these "residential gateway" routers provide these features (along with many of the other devices listed.  Therefor, technically they are not even gateways.  The router is a default gateway, but that is not the same thing.  Basically, this article is about consumer networking appliances.  I think the article really should be renamed to that and have another complete rewrite to actually give factual information.  As far as I am concerned, this article is full of misleading information. Jwjkp (talk) 08:02, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Residential gateway is relevant.  This term is refered in technical manuals (as of 2012) for network cable installers.  I'm sure that ISP tech support would know exactly what is meant by this term as well.  Stephen Charles Thompson (talk) 01:53, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Useless Page 

message: :Residential gateway is relevant.  This term is refered in technical manuals (as of 2012) for network cable installers.  I'm sure that ISP tech support would know exactly what is meant by this term as well.  Stephen Charles Thompson (talk) 01:53, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article name 

message: I have seen these referred to and perform the functions of a network bridge, router, firewall, hub, switch, and wireless access point.  I think it is fair to describe how each of these functions may be rolled up into these devices.  Lets not also forget DNS proxy, web content filter, anti-malware, IDS, and QOS.  Stephen Charles Thompson (talk) 01:53, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Classification of device 

message: The things that all Residential gateways have in common are: 
# Serves as a logical demarcation point between the ISP and the customer,
# physically composed of a  gateway device 
# Device has a WAN port consisting of an Ethernet interface that supports Internet Protocol and has a gateway address that routes to the Internet.
# Device acts as a  bridge to a Cable modem termination system or Digital subscriber line access multiplexer that connects the gateway node to the ISP Backbone network and to the Internet cloud,
Can we agree on this core commonality?  Stephen Charles Thompson (talk) 01:53, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Core Scope 

message: I did a bunch of grammar and spelling corrections to this article today.  It was really a mess including mistakes like using "bear" (the animal) instead of "bare" (like exposed).  Reads pretty cleanly now I think. Jwjkp (talk) 16:01, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grammar Edits 

message: I'm including links to two historical documents that give perspective of early visions and standards work, including one on IBM's RG Initiative. It is not meant to promote any company or product but instead gives insight into the challenges and how actual deployments differed from the original vision. (Waynecaswell (talk) 22:08, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Info on early RG initiatives 

message: I propose removal of this  embedded list, "Manufacturers".  Per policy Wikipedia:NOT#STATS and Wikipedia:Notability, embedded lists are supposed to be relevant and supportive to the article.  Placing a random list of network equipment manufacturers does not present any further understanding of the subject to the reader. It also makes the article  unnecessarilly long.  I don't care of it is merged or moved to a  stand alone list. Stephen Charles Thompson (talk) 19:57, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove Manufacturers List 

message: On the photo, the internet cable isn't connected. Only local network cables is connected.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.173.221.77 (talk) 15:38, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Internet cable not connected