Tag: Data link layer

You can take this quiz online at http://www.net-intro.com/quiz/ When using a WiFi network to talk to the Internet,...

base station: Another word for the first router that handles your packets as they are forwarded to the...

So now we have looked at the “lowest” layer in our four-layer architecture. And we have only taken a simple look...

Sometimes when a link layer has many transmitting stations and needs to operate at near 100% efficiency for long...

Because many computers are sharing the same radio frequencies, it’s important to coordinate how they send data. When...

When your laptop or phone is using WiFi to connect to the Internet, it is sending and receiving data with a small,...

The lowest layer of our Internet Architecture is the Link layer. We call it the “lowest layer” because it is...