What is the difference between Local Area Network and Wide Area Network?

If you have an Internet connection at home or at work, or read the newspapers regularly, or follow the latest technological trends, you can often come across references to networks. Networks of computers were connected with industry and government agencies only a few decades ago. At the present time, with a network at home is very common. Both used Local Area Networks (LANs) and Wide Area Networks (WANs) to provide networks for computer users.

Atypical use of a LAN-Internet connectivity is the same on all users in a home with a single Internet connection. All the Internet-enabled devices in the home can be configured as a node in a LAN and can use the Internet through a computer connected to that purpose. LANs can also be used to connect workstations in an office environment in a similar manner in connection with the access to shared resources such as printers.

A LAN using 10BaseT twisted pair cableor to make wireless networking of computers to connect to a network. There are several vendor-specific connectivity solutions for proprietary LAN topologies.

WANs are also made of computer networking - the difference between LAN and WAN is only one of degree. A WAN can have thousands of LANs, all networked together, together. A LAN can generally refer to a building whereas a WAN can cover a wide geographical area, beyond regional or national boundaries. In a LAN, the distanceis usually in the order of feet, as opposed to a WAN connections are in the order of thousands of miles.

A WAN is made through the use of leased lines by a service were available or transmit through the packet switching networks to the data in the network to implement. One of the best known examples of a WAN is the Internet.

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