you learned that IP tracks the number of times a message jumps or hops from one router to another on its way to its destination. Each of these hops requires a tiny bit of time$$the more routers a message must traverse, the longer it will take to reach its destination. In this module, you learned that latency is the delay caused by the time it takes messages to travel over network media from one place to another. This concept is easy to see in the real world, where it takes longer, for example, for you to travel across the country than it does to go down the street to the grocery store. Even though network messages travel much faster than a car or a jet plane, it still takes time for them to get from one place to another. And then the response must also travel across a similar number of hops, resulting in a longer RTT $($round trip time$).$ To see how distance affects a message$$s RTT$,$ complete the following steps: