Traveling Through a Network
Packets of information travel through the Internet by navigating along a path of routers between your computer and the destination sought, such as Google. Like a dot-to-dot exercise, the information “hops” from one router to another along the web to reach its destination, which is the domain name or IP address selected by the user. The entire process is incredibly fast, as evidenced by the fact that the packets’ delivery is measured in milliseconds. By using the command "ping" on ones computer, you can see the path the packets travel to request and deliver the desired information. Here are the results of my ping exercise for Google, a villa resort in France, and Amazon UK (completed on my Windows 10 desktop computer):