
#5 How does the Internet work?
Kopec Explains Software
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Is There a Timeout?
Can packets wind up in the wrong order where then the sentences that you wrote are out of order? Absolutely. It happens all the time actually, but we have built in robustness checks in place to reassemble them. And we actually also have checks in these protocols to make sure that if some packet didn't come through, we request it again.
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