I used to see how may kilobytes were uploaded and downloaded, now I see Packets. What is the relationship, i.e. how many kilobytes in a packet?
2006-09-13 04:18:44 · 3 answers · asked by waynec53 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Hard to say. It's going to be different at different times. There is no direct correlation between a number of packets and a volume of data.
2006-09-13 04:22:53 · answer #1 · answered by hlsj_99 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It turns out that everything you do on the Internet involves packets. For example, every Web page that you receive comes as a series of packets, and every e-mail you send leaves as a series of packets. Networks that ship data around in small packets are called packet switched networks.
On the Internet, the network breaks an e-mail message into parts of a certain size in bytes. These are the packets. Each packet carries the information that will help it get to its destination -- the sender's IP address, the intended receiver's IP address, something that tells the network how many packets this e-mail message has been broken into and the number of this particular packet. The packets carry the data in the protocols that the Internet uses: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). Each packet contains part of the body of your message. A typical packet contains perhaps 1,000 or 1,500 bytes.
2006-09-13 04:26:08 · answer #2 · answered by Shahid 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A packet is around 1500 bytes.
2006-09-13 04:28:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋