[WEB4LIB] LAN versus WAN

[Yi Kong]

WAN speads across a wide geographic area and often uses transmission devices
provided by common carries.
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From: Ed Veal <EVeal at mail.ci.lubbock.tx.us>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 11:22 AM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] LAN versus WAN


> I know this is a bit off topic but can someone help me out. What is the
technilogical diference between a Local Area Network and a Wide Area
Network? I do not think that it is just the geographical area. I think that
they use diferent routing tech. Is this true and if so what is it that is
diferent?
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