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Re:How a Portuguese-To-English Phrasebook Became a Cult Come... by iopq on Saturday July 02, 2016 @07:27AM (#12022148)
Router as in the hardware always rhymes with doubter. I have never heard any other pronunciation for it. Route as a verb in IT always rhymes with doubt.

In other meanings the pronunciations vary.

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Re:How a Portuguese-To-English Phrasebook Became a Cult Come... by Jedd on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @07:21AM (#12078137) 

  > Router as in the hardware always rhymes with doubter.
  > I have never heard any other pronunciation for it.
Neither had I, until I lived in the UK.

I'm Australian, and we use the owl sounding router.

In the UK, it's very much a rooter sounding router.

Always funny, as here in AU root is slang for the act of copulation.

The pronunciation made Akamai's SureRoute product especially droll.

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