@Ronnie21093 @PurpCat >For me, Wi-Fi is connecting a device to the modem/gateway/ect wirelessly
Computing is all abstraction.

802.11n Wi-Fi for example is a specification that defines a wireless medium that encapsulates Ethernet packets that have the destination address in the header in another kind of packet that is similar to Ethernet for over-the-air transmission.

When the Access Point receives the 802.11n packets, it throws away the wrappers and puts the packets together and then proceeds to route the Ethernet packet.


1000BASE-T is a specification that defines a physical media that usually is 4 twisted pairs and 8P8C connectors and also the electrical signalling for transmitting Ethernet packets over the wire, which then gets routed.

As a result, both protocols use the exact same Ethernet - the difference is the encoding mechanism and transmission medium.

I personally differentiate between 802.11n and 1000BASE-T, as that gives the reader enough information to determine exactly what I mean.