During our third week of class, we had a very brief introduction into networking. Our assignment was to investigate and experiment with the ping and tracert commands. We needed a sample of different geographical locations to test with. Another part of our assignment was to explain how packets travel through a network. When a person makes a query on the internet, the computer they are on creates packets to request the data from wherever they are looking. At home, the packet path starts at the computer and travels through the Network Interface Card (nic) into the router. From the router, the packet travels to the modem. From the modem, the packet travels to the ISP that the user subscribes to. The ISP then sends the packet out to the internet, where it travels to the network that has the information being requested. The packet then follows a similar route but in reverse until it reaches the server with the information that it is requesting. However, that was only one