how big is each packet?

[cyclohexane]

If you click the little icon in corner of the taskbar, it brings up
the network connections window and shows internet traffic of your comp.

For example:
Activity

Packets:
Sent 2,200,240

Received: 2,890,938

how big is each packet?

 

[LordMaul]

link

 

[James Bond]

Depends how big the payload is 😛

 

[npoe1]

I hope that this was supposed to be in networking.

 

[FoBoT]

http://www.psc.edu/~mathis/MTU/

 

[spidey07]

It depeands on the MTU. Could be 1460 bytes, could be 9000, could be 64000 bytes.