Basically I’m wondering. When I’m on my home WiFi, how does what I do on it stay on the router? And how can someone see everything I Did on the router? Likewise w/Data?
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Things stay on your router because of a thing called network address translation. (“nat(ing)”) Basically you have one address and things are sent to that one place. Then after you get everything back it is routed to where it is supposed to go.
It is like if you had your address on some mail but not the name. Everyone can write letters and those letters are put in the same mailbox. (same address) When the letter return you know that you are talking to someone in Brazil and your brother is talking to someone in France. (nating) The mailman has no idea who is talking to Brazil and who to France. It is all going to the same address and you sort it once it comes back to your address.
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