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pknerd ◴[] No.43534911[source]
My brain is unable to grasp it..How does it work and at what speed things used to get downloaded?
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1. nunez ◴[] No.43535647[source]
More or less just like Wi-Fi.

Your wi-fi access point takes electrical signals coming from something else, like a router, and turns them into radio waves that are captured by the antenna on your phone or computer. This is, then, fed to the Wi-Fi controller on your phone or computer which translates these transmissions back into electrical signals.

Loads of math are involved in getting it right, but that's the gist of it.