Everything you stream and share is broken into network packets. Learn how this enables the seamless flow of data that powers ...

The destination computer reassembles the packets into their proper sequence. Packet switching always excelled at handling messages of different lengths, as well as different priorities ...

Known as the "SYN, SYN-ACK, ACK handshake," computer A transmits a SYNchronize packet to computer B, which sends back a SYNchronize-ACKnowledge packet to A. Computer A then transmits an ...