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The wire, and the security which comes with the wire, or the security requirements that come from the absence of a wire:
A wired network is considered a private network, in the sense that the network owner can generally grant or deny physical access to this network. For example, the wired network inside my house is only accessible to those people inside my house.
However, a wireless network not only has no wire, it also implements a public or shared media. Subject to the reach of the access points and routers, my wireless LAN may be accessible from outside my house, and the owner of a wireless network has no immediate means to grant or deny controlled access to this network.
To solve this problem, wireless networks use sophisticated authentication and encryption methods to ensure that only authorized users can access a given network, and that nobody else can decipher messages sent on that network. An early form of this security protocol is WEP, short for wire-equivalent privacy (although it was later discovered that WEP wasn't very sophisticated to begin with, and is now superseded by more powerful alternatives).
The overhead for authentication and encryption does not exist on a wired network, and impairments that impact the operation on a public media (such as radio-frequency interference. While a wired network might come at the cost of wire installation, it is in principal more secure and faster than a wireless network.
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∙ 15y agoA wired lan uses wires to connect the computers, a wireless lan uses radio waves.
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The difference between wire less LAN and wire lan?
A wired LAN uses wires to connect the computers but a wireless LAN uses radio waves.
What is the difference between a single and multiple cell wireless LAN?
Single-cell wireless LAN: all of the wireless end systems are within range of a single control module. Multiple-cell wireless LAN: there are multiple control modules interconnected by a wired LAN; each control module supports a number of wireless end systems within its transmission range.
Advantages of LAN or WLAN?
LAN is wired WLAN is wireless
Why did wireless replace LAN?
Wireless is a type of LAN, it has not replaced it. For some wireless is a simpler technology and certainly easire to install, however the wired lan is both faster and more secure. A wired lan also generally provides more management capabilities than wireless.
A wireless LAN access point will convert traffic between which two frame encapsulation types?
Between the wireless network and the wired network
What wireless security protocol was designed to simulate the physical security of a wired LAN?
- WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) encrypts and secures wireless data transmissions between clients and access points in WLANS.
How do you connect a hub to a wireless router and will this give you both wired and wireless access?
if your wireless router has lan ports then the answer is yes.
Explaine the difference between LAN connection and Wireless connection?
see link below for answer
Who interconnect LANS?
LANs can be of wireless or wired type.In wireless LAN access points can be used tointerconnect the LANs and to Connect wired LANs bridges can be used. By naghma
What is the difference between a Lan and a WLAN?
local area network is only for small area and wireless local area network is for one building.
Should you use a printer capable of wired lan and wireless lan in wireless lan mode?
Sure, why not? But more specifically, it depends on how you want to use your printer. If you don't mind leaving it on all the time and feel comfortable entering the wireless LAN settings, then this is probably the best option. Then you have complete mobility with your printer and can put it anywhere you want. On the other hand, if you only want to use it when you're using a certain desktop computer, or want to save energy and not leave it running all the time (or the manual instructions for setting the wireless LAN scare you), then put it into wired mode and connect to a LAN-connection computer or your LAN router if it has a USB port. Alternately, if your printer also has an ethernet port for a wired LAN connection, the wired connection may offer you better robustness and self-configuration than the wireless LAN.
How is a wifi network different than a wired LAN network?
A WiFi network and a LAN network differ from each other. The biggest difference is that a WiFi network is run through a wireless connection., whereas a LAN network is run through cable.
