Networks

Networks

1. Types of network

   • WAN
     • Wide Area Network
   • LAN
     • Local Area Network

2. Advantages

   • Every computer is connected
     • can all get the same things
   • same password
     • easier to remember

3. Disadvantages

   • sometimes costs more
   • if 1 thing stops everything does
   • same password
     • easier to hack

4. topologies

   • star
   • bus
   • ring

5. IP Address

   • every device has an unique ip address
   • IP stands for Internet Protocol

6. Internet

   • every computer is connected
     • always a way to get a new route
       • each route has a cost
   • things sent are in packets
   • Mesh of computers
   • computers are called nodes
   • impossible to break the internet