First of all, the Internet is known to deliver packets out of sequence.

Whether stealing a fur coat from a suburban department store or using her little granddaughter to deliver packets of heroin Rosa Lee would declare, "I'm just trying to survive."

She delivered her words like photon torpedoes, discrete packets of energy targeted at her quarry.

Kellogg has used newspapers to send out six million samples of a new cereal, and Maxwell House has delivered small packets of coffee.

Obviously, the Internet does that, too, but the difference is that Internet routers deliver packets over the shortest path to the ultimate destination.

So statistically, because as we've talked about many times the Internet delivers packets on a best-effort basis, as we crank our bandwidth up we're going to see larger packet loss.

Find out how routers deliver packets of information to the right place.

The Internet Protocol delivers packets sent to a unicast address to that specific interface.

This means that there is ambiguity in delivering packets.

Even when it's working perfectly, it might not deliver packets at all, or they might deliver them out of sequence.