Terms Letter N Click on the letter of the word or acronym you are looking for. A point where networks and service providers hand off traffic to each other.
NAPs are typically the points with the worst congestion problems.
When you encounter slow responses and run a traceroute , you will usually see the slowest connections occur where one network hands off to another. See MAE . The basic principles of courtesy and consideration for others that can keep communication on the Internet a pleasure for all. A newcomer to the nets, who reveals his or her inexperience by lack of knowledge of net conventions, netiquette , vocabulary, and know-how. See Usenet newsgroups NIC Acronym for Network Interface Card, for example, an ethernet card in a network.