Visualizing TCP Posted on Monday, December 13, 2010. This video depicts an HTTP GET by showing packets as balls flying between client and server, slowed 40x compared to real time. It's pretty nice for getting a visceral sense of the underlying TCP session: you can see individual rounds at the start and then as the session stabilizes the rounds begin to overlap enough that they disappear. When I saw the video, it reminded me of the ever-present videos of sorting algorithms, like the ones on the W...