Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Introduction to Networking

What is a Network? This is a difficult question to answer. A network can consist of two computers connected together on a desk or it can consist of many Local Area Networks (LANs) connected together to form a Wide Area Network (WAN) across a continent.
The key is that 2 or more computers are connected together by a medium and they are sharing resources. The resources can be files, printers, hard­drives or cpu number crunching power.