Networks

Networks

1. Disadvanatges

   • Expensive
   • Complicated
   • Increased risk
   • More room for difficulty
   • One affects all

2. Advantages

   • Available from anywhere
   • Accessability
   • Share logins
   • Connective

3. Key words

   • LAN
     • Local access network
   • WAN
     • world area network
   • Network
   • Ring
   • Bus
   • Star
   • IP adress

4. Types of network

   • Bus
     • Advantages
       • Cheap to install
     • Disadvantages
       • High chance of catastrophic failure
       • Network gets slower as network gets bigger
   • Ring
     • Computers attatched in ring- only goes one way
     • Advantages
       • Easy to install
       • No collisions
     • Disadvantages
       • High chance of catastrophic failure
       • Difficult to add new computers
   • Star
     • All computers connected to central switch
     • Switch directs traffic to appropriate computer
   • Mesh
     • advantages
       • File and hardware sharing
         • communication
         • roaming acess
     • disadvantages

5. IP adresses

   • IP adress- internet protocol adress
   • The internet is a huge network with more devices than its possible to assign
   • Unique addresses are assigned to buisnesses and houses
   • These houses and buisnesses run their own mini network inside with different IP addresses