A Local Area Network (LAN) is typically a private network that is only visible behind your router or firewall. It is typically an TCP/IP based network with a NAT-type Firewall and/or Router that shares an IP address that is visible on the internet (sometimes referred to as a Wide Area Network or WAN).
An example would be two computers behind a residential router. The network between devices that allow them to communicate would be the Local Area Network.
A Peer to Peer (commonly abbreviated as P2P) network describes a type of ad-hoc network that typically allows the ability to search for and download files without having a specific central server.
A Peer to Peer Network and a Local Area Network are actually quite different. To put it in an analogy, a Local Area Network is like the postal service. It lets you send messages to other people. The Peer 2 Peer network would be what you send in the messages and how you find other people to share with.
a peer-to-peer (P2P) network
There is no difference.
Peer-to-peer
They're the same thing. A Local Area Network (LAN) and a workgroup are both a local and they both do the same thing. I think the main difference is that a workgroup is a specific part of the LAN such as a department of a business whereas a LAN describes the network.
local area network is only for small area and wireless local area network is for one building.
A Local Area Network (LAN), although this is now taken to mean a network of computers including file servers and printers. A Peer-to-Peer network involves as a minimum just two computers conected together.
To establish a peer-to-peer network connection between two lans, both pc must have network hardware. One multi-port sharing device like a hub is needed to support the computers. use a crossover cable if two computers are the only available unit.
Media is always required to connect one device to another on a network. It doesn't matter if it is a client server network or a peer to peer 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.
There are two main types of networks: 1) Peer to peer network : In this network all network resources are evenly shared , between all the users. All users in the network have equal administrative privileges. 2) Server client network: This is a network where there is only 1 central point in a network that supplies the network resources, this point has administrator privileges in the network and controls the whole network.
Local Area Network (LAN) allows two or more computers to access the internet through a single router and, by creating a shared folder/directory, to share data between any computer connected to the LAN.
GWAN = Gigabit WAN WAN = Wide Area Network LAN = Local Area Network WLAN = Wireless Local Area Network MAN = Metropolitan Area Network