What are the advantages and disadvantages of having a LAN?

Answer 1

Lan are fast cheap and reliable.

Answer 2

Bad things:

• Power - a good LAN is required to be on all the times.
• Security - each computer and device become another point of entry for undesirables.
• Upkeep - when things go wrong or the software gets updated.
• Frustration if having a problem setting up.
• A lot of times a network shares one internet connection - if all computers running at once, can reduce speed for each.
• Area covered is limited.

Good things:

• Easy to share devices (printers, scanners, external drives)
• Easy to share data (homework, pictures..)
• Build a complex enough one and you may get enough experience to get a new job.
• Cost of LAN Setup is low.

Answer 3

LAN means Local Area Network. One example is in a home network of two or more computers. Basically, a computer upstairs can see and connect to another computer that is downstairs, as they are on the same LAN network, and both can use the same router to search the internet.

Answer 4

AN advantage of LAN is that it allows you to get onto the internet by clicking Google chrome from the thing that pops up when you start up your pc, this is called the 'desktop'