89: Cheap Cat5 Cable
I’m grinding on the new Networking for System Administrators so here’s a chunk.
Ultimately, the Internet is a bunch of routers, switches, firewalls (however you define them), and other devices that connect a tangle of cables. Once a client request traverses the local WiFi connection, it travels through a bunch of wires and devices until they reach your server. Ultimately, every Internet node is connected by wire that can be traced from the local café to downtown, where it joins a bigger cable that goes across the country, perhaps joining a huge cable that runs under an ocean or…
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