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.
So things are sent through the wire, that needs to be demodulated coming from the ISP, and modulated to go back to the ISP> Hence the title, module and demodulate. It takes the digital information, transforms it into an analog format (most often through coax cable where I live.