Question

How does information travel over the internet?

Answer 1

Data travels across the internet in packets.

Each packet can carry a maximum of 1,500 bytes.

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When you send an e-mail to someone, the

message breaks up into packets that travel

across the network. Different packets from the

same message don't have to follow the same

path. That's part of what makes the Internet so

robust and fast. Packets will travel from one

machine to another until they reach their

destination. As the packets arrive, the

computer receiving the data assembles the

packets like a puzzle, recreating the message.