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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    8 months ago

    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.