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What are the difference between LAN and WAN?

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LAN means Local Area Network, as the name implies its used for local areas such as in your home or office for sharing data, informations or play games etc.. and WAN means Wide Area Network, which is used for wide or broad areas to share data or get informations such as across a country. But to transfer data globally, across the world internet is used.

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