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# How Vail Gets Realtime Morse Code across the Internet
The Internet isn't exactly like radio waves: it still goes at near the speed of light, but there are multiple hops between endpoints, which buffer up transmissions, and multiplex them onto a single uplink connection. These repeaters (routers) are also allowed to just drop things if they need to. It's the responsibility of the communicating parties to work out whether something needs to be retransmitted. Because of this, there's no telling how long it will take for a transmission to get to a destination. The Internet isn't exactly like radio waves: it still goes at near the speed of light, but there are multiple hops between endpoints, which buffer up transmissions, and multiplex them onto a single uplink connection. These repeaters (routers) are also allowed to just drop things if they need to. It's the responsibility of the communicating parties to work out whether something needs to be retransmitted. Because of this, there's no telling how long it will take for a transmission to get to a destination.
Each Vail transmission (packet) consists of: Each Vail transmission (packet) consists of: