Cara+Brownlee

Spend 50 mins on course work, collected next lesson-15th of May


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What pray tell is a network?

when compuetrs were first invented they were used for one person only, but one day some random person thought that it would be a cool idea to lin them so files could be shared. Computers can be connected with printers scanners and other random stuff. This is alright when only your good self is using it. A computer that is all by its lonesome is called a "stand alone" computer. By joining computers together they form a network like a kind of club. They can share files, software and data. I local network is used in schools and can share software that con be used at the same time. They can store peoples data and make it easy to accsess it. A wide network area spreads across the country connecting companies enableing them to share data. The advatages of networks are that they allow people to accsess things that have been put on to one computer. The data can be used at the same time. Printers can be shared and people can communicate. The disadvatage is that they are not cheep, hackers dreams, and the number of people on one network can slow it down. A bus connection is a cable that connects all the computers on a single wire. A ring connection is where the data passes in a circle untill it gets to the computer. A star is where a hub controls everything and ends things out to different computer.

Wooo 80% in the exam :D