What is an IP address, subnet, and gateway?

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Please ELI5.

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IP address is like your mailing address.

Gateway is like your local post office who passes things in and out of the system.

Subnet mask is a rule specifying which addresses are and are not in your town.

The internet is basically an interconnected series of tubes.

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