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It isn't, it is the same thing.

The term 'Gateway' is used to depict the device that allows you to connect to devices outside of your network, as in you walk through a gate into the outside world. Fancy mumbo-jumbo really, just another word for the same device.

Routers connect different networks, they route traffic between them. You can call them whatever you want, still the same device and the same function.

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