I know jumbo frames have an MTU > 9000 and regular ethernet is about 1500, while the internet std. MTU is ~576.

While many home networking appliances and clients support jumbo frames, getting them to play nice at home is a headache. They ...

Paul Baran, whose Cold War era invention of packet switching technology helped to lay the foundation for the Internet, has died at the age of 84 in Palo Alto, Calif.

The Internet transmits data to and from computers and networks via packets. The term "packet loss" describes the event in which a data packet fails to reach its destination.

If the packet is coming from an outside host, the router directs the packet from the modem to the computer that's supposed to receive the data. Additionally, the router also handles sending the ...