Millions of
Internet users around the world come across packets every day without even
realizing it. You use them when you are reading this article, write an e-mail,
make cheap international calls or Google
for your favorite actors. The Internet is based on something called a packet.
What should ordinary users know about it?
Data shipped
over the Internet is divided into small parts (bytes, kilobytes, etc.). Parts
of a file ranging between 1,000 – 1,500 bytes are called packets. They have
footers and headers which contain information what the packet is about and hot
to create a whole file.
