08-01-2002, 04:52 PM
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Ironworks Moderator 
Join Date: March 1, 2001
Location: Midlands, South Carolina
Age: 49
Posts: 14,759
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I have been learning an extremly huge amount of information about internet connections and how it works this weekend, as you probably alreadyb know with my story of being unable to connect to this site for the past two weeks. It is not always the fault of this site, nor does it matter how fast your connection speed is.
When you log on for the first time, you create a pathway to this site from your home...and the pathway your connection takes involves "hopping" from one point of reference to another in order to make it to here. Now, this memorized pathway is a temporary one, and will refresh itself on a timed basis. Thus, your stuff has to relearn the trail.
Also...one of those hops could be a trouble-maker, and holds up traffic instead of letting it pass.
For all those PC technitions out there that are at this time laughing your heads of at my pathetic attempt to explain the marvellous world of technology...er...I know I am stupid and do not have any idea what I am really talking about! But I still wanted to post my understanding of it all. Did I do an okay job for a newbie?
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