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Network

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Network

LAN ( Local Area Network )
- Devices connected over a small geographical area.
- Hardware needed to connect your devices into LAN
  - Switch
  - Wireless access point WAP
  - Ethernet cable
  - Network interface card
  - Router
- Ways to connect to a LAN
  - Wifi
    - Advantage
      - its good for portable devices to a LAN because it is wireless and if it wont reach to a certain area yuo can always add a wifi extender
    - Disadvantage
      - slower transfer speed compared to ethernet because it will take longer without a cable to go back to the router as its not directly transfered
    - Wireless connection
  - Ethernet
    - Advantage
      - Faster data tansfer speed compared to wifi
      - Has a range of 100 meters
    - Disadvantage
      - Costs that little bit more as you are paying for the Ethernet cable and you dont have to pay anything for wifi
    - Wired connection
WAN (Wide Area Network)
- Hardware needed to connect to a WAN
- Ways to connect to a WAN
- A collection of networks are connected over a large geographical area