When Wi-Fi says: “connected, no internet” what’s actually happening?
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Your wifi is really just a device that both has its own network and connects to a wider network(the internet) .
It’s own network is called a Local Area Network(LAN) and the wider network is called a Wide Area Network(WAN).
The LAN is used to communicate with devices on the same wifi such as sending a document to your printer and only exists on your wifi, the LAN literally is your wifi. The WAN is the internet.
So when you get this message you are connected to the LAN and can print stuff but you are not connected to the WAN.
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