WAN. LAN is a short range connection, WAN is wide range.
The advantages of a WAN or wide area network connection are its ability to communicate with distant computers and the sheer size it supports. Unlike LAN's or local area networks, a WAN can connect to virtually any computer in the world.
The advantages of a WAN or wide area network connection are its ability to communicate with distant computers and the sheer size it supports. Unlike LAN's or local area networks, a WAN can connect to virtually any computer in the world.
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The world's largest WAN is the internet.
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I am pretty sure that a WAN connection would not be needed for a home network. A WAN is a Wide-Area Network. A WAN would be used to connect to your business computer from home. A LAN is a Local-Area Network. It should be sufficient if the network is simply for sharing files or printers, etc.
A WAN is any technology used to connect networks at a greater distance. Without a WAN, your home - or in this case, your school - won't have a connection to the Internet.
No, it wouldn't be considered a WAN in and of itself. If the users were accessing files from various sites around the world that would be different. The RDP protocol allows a remote user to connect to a company LAN remotely (outside the building). That can be through a dialup connection, or any of the other high speed connections such as a T1, or T3, ISDN line, etc. If you take the RDP protocol out of the question and ask if sharing information on the company LAN via many distant connections then we could talk about it being a WAN. RDP itself does not make the connection a WAN connection.
The world's largest WAN is the internet.
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