Network Topologies

What is a WAN ?

• Wide Area Network
• Wide Access Network
• Wider Allowance Networking

What is a LAN?

• Local Area Network
• Local Access Network
• Localized Area Network

What is a characteristic of a WAN?

• Uses 3rd Party Hardware, cables or satellites.
• All computers are really close to each other.
• Play games in your house on it.

What is a characteristic of a LAN?

• Small geographical location such as a school or small office.
• Really cheap to set up.
• Uses less cables than a star.

"To share hardware, software and data" is the answer to the question ...

• Why do we network computers and other devices?
• Why do we use wi-fi all the time?
• Why is a network complicated?

Which one is an advantage to networking computers.

• Data is easy to back up from a central server.
• Expensive to set up a network
• Complicated to maintain a network.

What are two factors that affect network performance?

• Traffic and bandwidth
• Lag and ping
• Banter and bants

What is bandwidth?

• The amount of data that can be carried at any one time.
• The overall amount of data I use in a month.
• The speed of my data per second to a friend and back.

Mbps is known as...

• Megabits per second
• Megabytes per second
• Gigabits per second

What are the 3 main network topologies?

• BUS, RING & STAR
• BUS, STAR & LAN
• WAN, STAR & LAN