Copyright © John Barnett 2001.
TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) is a suite of protocols devised back in the 1970's to allow communication between hosts. It was designed to be flexible and expandable, although at the moment is supposedly nearing breaking point for reasons that I will explain later.
Because of the popularity of the Internet it is available on practically every computer type and operating system, and can scale from handling connections of all speeds, from modems right up to huge multi megabit fast international connections. This makes it very suitable for handling the varying performance levels across the
Internet.
