Which of the following is true of how packets are sent through the internet?

Step 1: The Internet works by chopping data into chunks called packets. Each packet then moves through the network in a series of hops. Each packet hops to a local Internet service provider (ISP), a company that offers access to the network -- usually for a fee

Step 2: Entering the network

Each packet hops to a local Internet service provider (ISP), a company that offers access to the network -- usually for a fee.

Step 3: Taking flight

The next hop delivers the packet to a long-haul provider, one of the airlines of cyberspace that quickly carrying data across the world.

Step 4: BGP

These providers use the Border Gateway Protocol to find a route across the many individual networks that together form the Internet.

Step 5: Finding a route

This journey often takes several more hops, which are plotted out one by one as the data packet moves across the Internet.

Step 6: Bad information

For the system to work properly, the BGP information shared among routers cannot contain lies or errors that might cause a packet to go off track – or get lost altogether.

Last step: Arrival

The final hop takes a packet to the recipient, which reassembles all of the packets into a coherent message. A separate message goes back through the network confirming successful delivery.