At this speed, viewing the Internet with one connection is relatively slow. You can imagine how slow the information would pass from your computer to others if you have more than one person connected at a time. This is called bandwidth. Bandwidth is measured in bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, or gigabytes per second. Also, you would have to keep your computer connected to the Internet 24 hours per day.
Information flows from the host computer in a number of different ways.
At present there are three piering points in the US located in Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago. After the information passes through a piering point it is routed again through a number of different computers and potentially a number of different ISP's to Bob's computer. Each time the information passes between computers this is called a hop. Obviously the fewer hops, the faster the information flows from the host computer to Bob's computer. On average information passes through 15-30 hops from a host to a client's computer.