The Star Student Project dictates that if one client wants to talk to another (say, you want to send a photo from your laptop to your Xbox), the data must go through the central point (the router). The internet, in case you’re wondering, because it’s such a mess of different networks, is hard to label as a single topology.
So,
if you take the home network star topology, but then allow the Smartphone,
laptop, and Xbox to talk directly to each other, you have a mesh topology.