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How does email travel?
When an email is sent, it is usually converted into a stream of data. The data in question is usually stored in what is called the packets. The packets usually includes the routing instructions to the address that a given email is to be delivered.
What is it called when waves travel in groups?
When waves travel in groups, it is called wave packets. Wave packets are localized disturbances that consist of a group of individual waves with varying frequencies and wavelengths.
What do you call data packets that are in a group and sent together?
Data packets that are in a group and sent together are called a frame. Data packets do not have to travel through unnecessary nodes so they can be sent quickly.
What are packets?
If we are sending a file in one go and if some error occurred in between the file transfer then the complete file has to be resend which wastes the bandwidth so to prevent this, the file to send is divided in to smaller unit which we call packet, and then send packets 1 by one so that if a packet is lost then we need to send only that particular packet not the complete file.
What are individual packets of light called?
Individual packets of light are called photons. Photons are the basic unit of light and do not have mass, allowing them to travel at the speed of light.
How long does it take mail to travel from NC to MI?
Some hold that email travels at the speed of light but that's not accurate because of all the delays at the routers where ip packets get buffered and resend numerous times plus email servers are slow too. So it may take anything from a fraction of a second to several seconds.
The risks of receiving email attachments?
worms, viruses, and Trojan horses packets that are destined by malevolent hackers to harm your PC.
What is the command to find out which path or route packets travel across a network?
Use traceroute (tracert) or pathping
Data is transmitted on a network in pieces called?
Packets Words
Which network utility helps determine the location of network problems and identifies routers that packets travel across?
tracert, traceroute
When packets leave a network to travel on the Internet they must be translated into a standard format. What usually perform this translation function?
routers
When packets leave a network to travel on the Internet they must be translated into a standard format What usually perform this translation function?
routers
