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It sends electricity or radio waves, yeah? The bits aren't the cells, they are the electricity within the cells.


Now we’re talking about bits, I thought we were talking about bytes (or was it octets?)

I’m not sure this gets us any closer to a jargon-free explanation of what TCP does.




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