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Google searches have only yielded 5th grade level examples (“the modem talks between your ISP and your home network!”) or articles I would need a degree to understand. Can anyone provide an explanation that’s somewhere in between the two? I understand the fundamentals of how the Internet works, and how LAN works regarding a router and individual devices, but I’m curious to know more about the link between those.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A modem device bridges between the local area network (LAN) and the wide area network (WAN).

Nope. A modem can be a part of a box doing this but not always.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yes, of course. Feel free to explain it better!