Travel through the networks

Ok, so information is sent as packets.

Packets are sent through communication links, wires, computers, or routers that make a path to their intended recipient. This constant exchanging of information, or communication, makes up the internet. 

A couple of ways to see this is by using the commands Ping and Tracert.

Because both these commands use the connections to run, any failure or timed out response can let us know where the packet was denied or lost, thus why the internet connection may be slow or unresponsive since the internet is just a constant series of connections, sending and receiving information requested.

The Ping command sends out 4 packets to the domain or IP address we specify and reports if the packets were received, or if they were lost. 

Tracert command shows you a path, traces the route, of all the computers that a packet can and did take to reach its intended destination. The time it takes for a packet to reach the server intended is nothing compared to its actual geographical location. 

Both ping and tracert run in milliseconds. Pinging and trace routing critrole.au, a site hosted in Australia, took milliseconds, whereas actually traveling to Australia roundtrip would take over 48 hours and about 3,000.00 on Expedia. 

In the trace route to amazon.com.jp, it timed out 4 four times, which can mean that that particular connection did not respond or took to long to reply. This can be because of traffic, too many packets being sent to that router at once left our packet in a queue for too long. 

Tracert Command