CIS 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Print Server, Network Interface Controller, Computer Network

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Computing and Information Science
• Course: CIS 1200
• Professor: John Saville

Document Summary

If using this shared device, you can share broadband internet connections: there are two main ways a network can be administered: locally or centrally, locally administered network, ex. Peer to peer network: centrally administered network, ex. Peer to peer networks: locally administered network, each node connected to the network can communicate directly with every other noted on the network, instead of having a separate device take control over the whole network, ex. You must install or attach network adapters to a computer or peripheral if you want to connect to it. Client/server network: centrally administered network, most networks that have 10 or more nodes, the internet is a client/server network. When connected to the internet, it is a client. When connected through an isp, your computer connects to a server: they contain two types of computers: clients and servers, clients, the computer on which users accomplish specific tasks and make specific requests.