Types of networks

Types of networks

1. Bus

   • Advantages
     • Cheap to install
   • disadvantages
     • Lots of collisions
     • Slower as more computers get added
     • High chance of catastrophic faliure

2. Star

   • Advantages
     • No collisions
     • Low chance of catastrophic faliure
   • Disadvantages
     • Expensive

3. Ring

   • Advantages
     • No collisions
     • Cheap to install
   • Disadvantages
     • Difficult to expand
     • High chance of catastrophic faliure

4. Networks

   • Adavantages
     • Can share things
     • Computers can easily communicate
     • you can use they same details -password and usernames- on every computer on that network
   • Disadvantages
     • If one computer gets a virus others could get it
     • Viruses can spread easily
     • Expensive and hard to set up all software

5. IP Addresses

   • An IP Address is a unique number that tells computers where you are
     • There are over 4 billion IP Addresses to be used

6. Routing

   • They are used to determine which route through the mesh will have the lowest cost, and therefore take the least time

7. Packets

   • All data on the internet is split up in small chunks

8. Mesh Topolgy

   • Each node is connected to one or more other nodes in an ad-hoc manner