Advantages of LAN
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Low cost: Only need 2
computers connected together via a network card can become
a Workgroup.
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Easy configuration: the
network configuration functionality built into the operating
system windows
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Easy to manage: Since this is
a form of peer model, there is no management of any computer
in the network.
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Speed: The machine connected together via the
internal network should be very high speeds.
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Files
can be stored on a central computer (the file server) allowing data to be
shared throughout an organization.
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Files
can be backed up more easily when they are all on a central fileserver rather
than when they are scattered across a number of independent workstations.
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Networks
also allow security to be established, ensuring that the network users may
only have access to certain files and applications.
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Software
and resources can be centrally managed.
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Expensive
devices such as laser printers or scanners can be shared.
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Users
can access their files from any workstation
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Workstations
can share peripheral devices like printers. This is cheaper than buying a
printer for every workstation.
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Workstations
do not necessarily need their own hard disk or CD-ROM drives which make them
cheaper to buy than stand-alone PCs. Users can save their work centrally on
the network file server. This means that they can retrieve their work from
any workstation on the network. They do not need to go back to the same
workstation all the time.
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Users
can communicate with each other and transfer data between workstations very
easily. One copy of each application package such as a word processor,
spreadsheet etc, can be loaded onto the file and shared by all users. When a
new version comes out, it only has to be loaded onto the server instead of
onto every workstation.
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LAN Advantages:
• Workstations can share peripheral devices like printers. This is cheaper than buying a printer for every workstations.
• Workstations do not necessarily need their own hard disk or CD-ROM drives which make them cheaper to buy than stand-alone PCs.
• User can save their work centrally on the network’s file server. This means that they can retrieve their work from any workstation on the network.
• They don’t need to go back to the same workstation all the time.
• Users can communicate with each other and transfer data between workstations very easily.
• One copy of each application package such as a word processor, spreadsheet etc. can be loaded onto the file and shared by all users.
• When a new version comes out, it only has to be loaded onto the server instead of onto every workstation.
