Connected at home: my first hop.
Channel: internet-class
Date: 2016-08-25

Connected at home: my first hop.
One of the most fun ways to learn about the physical internet is to play &quot;follow that cable.&quot; Let’s do that starting at my house. Home internet connections are frequently quite different than what you find at work at at a university. The internet snuck into our houses along cables that were meant for other things—​what once carried a voice or a television data connection now carries the internet.

Credits: Talking: Geoffrey Challen (Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo). Producing: Greg Bunyea (Undergraduate, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo).

Part of the https://www.internet-class.org online internet course. A blue Systems Research Group (https://blue.cse.buffalo.edu) production.