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| Local Area Network - within a building / company. Fast & Private. Company share their own resources, own all the cables. |
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| Wide Area Network - need to use a 3rd party line e.g. BT Broadband. Slower than a LAN but is global in size. Join to offices together in different countries. |
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| Personal Area Network - less than 10meters in size. Slow. Could use BlueTooth or Infrared. Synchronise phone contacts with PC. Mouse/Keyboard/Headsets/ |
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| GPRS/3G/4G Access to telephone network to transmit data anywhere there is coverage. GPRS - slow 4G is very fast. |
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| One printer shared among all uses of the network. One internet connection shared, one folder shared among all users. |
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| Files or folders shared to users over a network. One copy of the file on a server accessed by multiple users. |
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| Online Games/Audio Streaming / Video Streaming. fast connections required with little LAG. |
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| Methods to communicate with others online - email, IM, chat, forums, video conferencing, web conferencing, VoIP (Voice over IP phones). |
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| Shared resources, shared data, better communications. |
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| E.g. synchronise your phone contacts with PC contacts via bluetooth. |
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