World Wide Web especially transmits a great deal of data when images or sound are involved. Slow modems and slow connections will discourage anyone but the most dedicated user from exploring the possibilities of the Internet. This driver may be written to interface with a packet driver, as is the case with the Trumpet Winsock package. Instead, Windows 95 provides drivers for most popular network cards. Hardware vendors now provide Windows 95 drivers for their network cards, just as they provided packet drivers in the past.
Client software runs independently of the type of connection to the Internet.
An FTP client, for instance, is the application on the user's machine that accesses the FTP server running on a host computer located elsewhere on the Internet. This restriction was eliminated with the development of the Windows Sockets Application Programming Interface, otherwise known as the Winsock API, or more simply Winsock.