Definition: Peripherals

**Lyte** · 01-09-2006, 10:27 PM

Peripherals are pieces of hardware that "live" outside your computer such as... Printers, Ext. (External) CD recorders, Web cams, Joysticks, Scanners, Digital Cameras, etc.

Three pieces of equipment that are NOT (typically) considered peripherals are your monitor, keyboard and mouse. These are required to operate your PC so they fall under hardware.

bytewiz · 01-09-2006, 10:29 PM

so if i am getting some shifty responses from my cable router should i be concerned about replacing it before it fails to protect the card inside the pc or have a backup of my pc card for the modem just in case? I am worried they are going to blip each other awayyyy

**Lyte** · 01-09-2006, 10:33 PM

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Originally Posted by bytewiz

so if i am getting some shifty responses from my cable router should i be concerned about replacing it before it fails to protect the card inside the pc or have a backup of my pc card for the modem just in case? I am worried they are going to blip each other awayyyy

Define "shifty"... is it giving you dirty looks or are you getting some kind of error message?? :p