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.
I feel your pain on that,there are many rabbit holes about many different ones out in the wild.
Either gonna find a plug in power plug in cable plug in computer description, or every math formula in existance to describe how it sent one of ten trillion packets that one unique time to the billion different ways it can send them.