Netgear Wireless LAN RouterThe Router is that box with the flashing lights which connects you to the Internet via the telephone socket. Wireless routers are included in wireless broadband packages, and are essential in homes or small offices where multiple devices connect to the Internet at the same time. You could hard-wire every device using Ethernet cable, but that's so 2003...

Internet routers can be wired or wireless. Unless you have a 3G connection - that is, Internet via a cellular provider over mobile telephone, it's not the broadband connection or package that is wireless, it's the router. Read more of this post