The phrase "as a packet" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to data transmission, networking, or when referring to a collection of items or information grouped together.
Example: "The data was sent as a packet to ensure it arrived intact and in the correct order."
Alternatives: "in a bundle" or "as a unit".
Latency is the delay caused by a network as a packet of data makes a round trip.
They often then turn to the street for heroin, which can be as cheap as a packet of cigarettes, reported Sky News.
His driving idea was that his paperbacks should be sold at the same price as a packet of cigarettes – and have just as much appeal.
I didn't want triangles of girly pink stuff that looked about as effective at quenching my thirst as a packet of cheese and onion.
Carnivore is a modified version of a common piece of software known as a "packet sniffer" that is used by Internet service providers to maintain their networks.
And there's the traveller Isabella Bird in 1880 quietly happy in "a seed shop, where seeds are truly idealised", laying out tuppence on an impromptu watercolour meant as a packet for peonies, plus an impulse buy of 50 flower fireworks.
As if looking at a packet of cigarettes is what drives people to smoke.
The ISA server acts as a packet-filtering router instead of providing full featured firewall capabilities available when publishing and protocol rules are used.
We present an equivalent four-band lifting implementation leading to simple central and side decoders as well as a packet-based reconstruction strategy in order to cope with random packet losses.
However, when there is no opposite packet in the queue, the center node transmits the header packet as a native packet without network coding.
When network coding is not possible, with 1−q(m), the center node transmits a header packet as a native packet.
