Connecting the points with lines to see their order

If we plot the same figure as the previous on, but now connect the individual points with lines (note that this would normally be a bad thing to do - as these are discrete data points and not a continuous function). Due to these lines, we can now see the ordering of these data points.

data points connected by lines to bring out their ordering — Plot of the number of UDP packets from source to client since last UDP client to source

Note that it is the packets from the client to the server that can convey information about the state of the client, hence the server can adjust its sending rate.

Transcript

Well, it becomes much clearer whenever we plot the points interconnecting them with lines as we saw once in an earlier module, and this shows the sequence of the packets being sent. So you can actually see that most of the time, once again, the packets are being sent with these long bursts, but it's very clear that there's a pattern to these smaller bursts. So the question is: What's the pattern?