What Is Lan?

Is this what LAN means?

  • Does this sound right? Am I correct? Local Area Network (LAN) is a privately owned computer network that supplies networking capability to a group of computers in close proximity to each other such as a home, office or small group of buildings (for example a school or an airport)

  • Answer:

    Yes, you're spot on. The internet on the other hand is sometimes also called a WAN (Wide Area Network).

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Yes, Where WAN means Wide Area Network when you plug into the WAN port of your Router that is coming in.

Yes, LAN means "local aera network"

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