The diagram raises an interesting question which you may not have thought about before. How does all the information from the internet get to the right device inside the network? If you visit howtogeek.com on your laptop how does it end up on your laptop and not your son’s desktop if the public-facing IP address is the same for all devices? Advertisement pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.overrideAttributeFunctions();tmntag.cmd.push(function(){tmntag.adTag('purch_Y_C_0_1', false);}); This is thanks to a wonderful bit of routing magic known as a Network Address Translation (NAT).
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