Computing Homework

1. The Internet

2.  A computer network linking smaller computer networks
worldwide. The Internet has commersial, educational,
governmental, and other networks, all of which use the same
set of communication.
What Is the Internet

3.  The IP address Is a particular set of code that lets a website
exchange data with a certain Network or device.
 Each website has a domain name which have a system to
convert it into an IP address
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4.  Data Packets are a method of splitting up a certain piece of
data into chunks in order to send them across to other
networks
 If you had a file that’s two Megabytes in size. And you try to send
this file to someone in another country.
 When you press send it isn’t just sent away first it would split it up
into sections of 512 bytes. Each section would be given the IP
address it is to be sent to and the IP address its been sent from.
 When the Different sections reach the other IP address they all
get put back together into the file you originally sent
Data Packets

5.  A router s made to transfer data from one network to another in
a special way. It has the task of sending packets to there
destination the best way.
 When packets arrive in the router it reads what's inside the
packet to get its destination and then looks for the paths
available to the destination. It also checks how busy the paths
are at the moment and then sends it up the fastest path to its
destination.
Routers

6.  http://
www.teach-ict.com/gcse_new/internet/internet_www/miniweb/index.htm
 http://
www.teach-ict.com/gcse_new/networks/hardware/miniweb/pg4.htm
 http://
www.teach-ict.com/gcse_computing/ocr/215_communications_networking/IP_and_DNS/ http://
www.teach-ict.com/technology_explained/packet_switching/packet_switching.html
Sources

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