Your Wi-Fi Connection Is Like a Tether Connecting You to a Network
It’s a nice visual, but not accurate. In truth your router is more like a sprinkler in the middle of a lawn, spraying packets of data around all the connected devices in your house. One packet of data to one device, one packet of data to the next, and so on. This is why adding more devices to a Wi-Fi network can easily slow it down. Newer router technologies, like MU-MIMO with Wi-Fi 6, can create lasting connections with mobile devices, but only a few at a time.