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networks revision
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- 1What is a LAN?A LAN is a local area network, it's a group of computers that share information.
- 2What is a WAN?A WAN is a wide area network, this can do the same thing but can do it with a lot more computers
- 3What is a router?a router connects multiple computers together either through wireless or wired connections
- 4what is the advantage and disadvantage of networkingthe advantages are that files can be stored on a central server and can be shared through other computers, but the disadvantages are that if one of the computers is slowed down all the others would
- 5what devices are needed to make a networka network hub, a network switch, a modem, a router and a bridge
- 6what is an ISP?An ISP is a international service provider that allows you to access the internet
- 7what is the difference between the hub and the switcha hub sends it to all the computers connected but a switch only sends it to the one it needs to
- 8what is the internetthe the internet is a global network providing a variety of information and communication facilities.
- 9what devices are used to produce a LANA LAN would require a network switch/ a router, a broadband connection, a computer and an ether net cable ( plus extras to connect other computers together).
- 10what devices are produced to make a WANthe things that will be needed telephone lines a satellite and radio waves
- 11what is the purpose of a WAPthat is a wireless access point and is a hardware device on a LAN and it connects things wirelessly
- 12what is the world wide weban information system on the Internet which allows documents to be connected to other documents
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- Flashcards on networks revision , created by Oliver Smith on 04/10/2017.
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