Let's look at a packet. The following is just one packet of information pulled from a captured data stream. Please remember: this is just one packet!
Oh, a little history here. If you look at the structure of the packet and look at the structure of an old telegraph message, you will notice the structure is the same. Yes, a packet is basically a telegram. Also, remember Morse code is basically a four-bit binary language.
Note that first we have the frame. The frame contains basic information about the packet you can see. The bytes on the wire are captured by Wireshark. This also keeps the timing of the packets that are used in reassembling the packets when received:
Frame 9: 188 bytes on wire (1504 bits), 188 bytes captured (1504 ...
