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LANs and WANs
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- 1What is a LAN?A LAN (Local Area Network) covers a small geographical area located on a single site
- 2Examples where would you find LANs?Businesses, Schools and Universities
- 3What are the advantages of using a LAN?Sharing files are easier
You can share the same hardware
User accounts can be stored centrally
You can communicate with LAN users cheaply and easily - 4What is a WAN?A WAN (Wide Area Network) connects LANs that are in different geographical locations
- 5What is the difference between a LAN and a WAN? and why?The organisation using a WAN hire infrastructure from telecommunications companies, who own and manage the WAN.
This is because a WAN is much more expensive to set up than a LAN - 6How can different WANs be connected?Using fibre optic cables, copper telephone lines, satellite links or radio links.
- 7What is one example of a WAN?The Internet
- 8What is Bandwidth?It's the amount of data that can be transferred in a given time
- 9How can many users affect the bandwidth on one network?It may cause congestion and slow the network.
- 10Which one is more reliable and faster? Wired connections or Wireless connectionsWired Connections
- 11What can give a better performance than copper cables?Fibre optic cables
- 12Wireless performance depends on signal quality. What affects the signal quality?The range of the connected device
The amount of interference from other devices
Physical obstructions like thick walls in buildings
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- GCSE (Networks) Computer Science Fichas sobre LANs and WANs, creado por Angela De Leon el 05/02/2022.
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