1. At the same time, an encrypted data packet will be included in the broadcast signal. 2. Because it is a shared network, any of your devious neighbors with the technical expertise to run a network sniffer can intercept data packets from your computer. 3. But now the Linux box hums quietly away, shoveling data packets back and forth across the Internet. 4. But send Bill an e-mail, and the information is chopped into lots of tiny data packets, each with its own address. 5. But unlike IP, which creates data packets of varying length, ATM generally creates data cells of uniform size. 6. Levy noted that Internet providers could program their routers handling outgoing data to ensure that none of their customers are sending spoofed data packets to others on the Net. 7. Not even two years ago, carrying voice calls over Internet data packets was still widely seen as dicey. 8. Ping sends out a special data packet to any Internet server computer you choose. 9. Speech and music sent over the Internet sound only as good as the weakest link in transmission, or places where the data packets of sound travel most slowly. 10. Someday, voice communications may be routinely sent the same way, bundled in data packets like e-mail, at a fraction of the cost of conventional phone calls. |