Computer Basics 17: How Routers and Packets work

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http://FreeCodeCamp.com is a community of busy people who learn to code, then practice by building projects for nonprofits. Learn Full-stack JavaScript, build a portfolio, and get great references with our open source community. Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=freecodecamp Follow us on Twitch: twitch.tv/freecodecamp Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/freecodecamp Follow Quincy on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Quincy-Larson In this video, we go into a little more detail about routers and packets, important concepts to understand about how the internet works. Let's talk more about routers and how they relate to networking. Routers are the things that connect different small area networks. I want to give a metaphor for this: I'm a teacher and I work at a school. Say I have a package that I need to get to someone who works in the district offices. I don't know where she is, I don't know where her office is located, but I know her name. I go to my secretary, like my first router, and I say \Hey, I need to get this to so-and-so at the district office, can you please help me?\ and she'll say \Sure, I don't know exactly where her office is either, but I know the next step, I can get it to the district\. So she goes on and sends it to the secretary at the district office, the next router. That secretary has no idea who I am or where I am, but she sees the name on the package and knows the end location. What I'm tryin

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