What excatly is computer networking?
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networking is a collection of data communication software, communication hardware and communication media connected in a usefull way to share data, information and resources.\nin other words we can say computer  networking is two or more computers connected together in usefull means to share data and information resources.
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In a nutshell the internet is a massive network of computers with the main players having servers holding stored data. When you download a video from a website it is like retrieving a video from your cd or harddrive except you are downloading it from someone else's cd or harddrive on their server.\n\nSeveral factors keep "things online" online. The server computer holding stored data, telephone or cable companies, and associated electronic gadgets. The server computer needs to on and connected to the internet, the telephone lines need to be open or cable internet operating, and modems and nodes and all the other gadgets need to be in good working order.\n\nThat's it in a nutshell!
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LAN local area network and a computer network.\n\nBasically the same. The LAN doesn't necessarily have to have a computer connected to it, but a user interface device UID
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Lan, \nA local area network (LAN) is a computer network covering a \nlocal area, like a home, office, or group of buildings. Current LANs are most likely to be based on switched IEEE 802.3 Ethernet, or on Wi-Fi technology running at 10, 100 or 1,000 Mbit.\nA wide area network or WAN is a computer network covering a broad geographical area. Contrast with personal area networks (PANs), metropolitan area networks (MANs) or local area networks (LANs) that are usually limited to a room, building or campus. The largest and most well-known example of a WAN is the Internet.\n\nWAN,\n\nWANs are used to connect local area networks (LANs) together, so that users and computers in one location can communicate with users and computers in other locations. Many WANs are built for one particular organization and are private. Others, built by Internet service providers, provide connections from an organization's LAN to the Internet. WANs are most often built using leased lines. At each end of the leased line, a router connects to the LAN on one side and a hub within the WAN on the other. Leased lines can be very expensive. Instead of using leased lines, WANs can also be built using less costly circuit switching or packet switching methods. Network protocols including TCP deliver transport and addressing functions. Protocols including Packet over SONET, MPLS, ATM and Frame relay are often used by service providers to deliver the links that are used in WANs. X.25 was an important early WAN protocol, and is often considered to be the "grandfather" of Frame Relay as many of the underlying protocols and functions of X.25 are still in use today (with upgrades) by Frame Relay.
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A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network is a network that relies primarily on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively low number of servers. P2P networks are typically used for connecting nodes via largely ad hoc connections. Such networks are useful for many purposes. Sharing content files (see file sharing) containing audio, video, data or anything in digital format is very common, and realtime data, such as telephony traffic, is also passed using P2P technology.\n\nA pure peer-to-peer network does not have the notion of clients or servers, but only equal peer nodes that simultaneously function as both "clients" and "servers" to the other nodes on the network. This model of network arrangement differs from the client-server model where communication is usually to and from a central server. A typical example for a non peer-to-peer file transfer is an FTP server where the client and server programs are quite distinct, and the clients initiate the download/uploads and the servers react to and satisfy these requests.\n\nSome networks and channels, such as Napster, OpenNAP, or IRC @find, use a client-server structure for some tasks (e.g., searching) and a peer-to-peer structure for others. Networks such as Gnutella or Freenet use a peer-to-peer structure for all purposes, and are sometimes referred to as true peer-to-peer networks, although Gnutella is greatly facilitated by directory servers that inform peers of the network addresses of other peers.\n\nPeer-to-peer architecture embodies one of the key technical concepts of the internet, described in the first internet Request for Comments, "RFC 1, Host Software" [1] dated 7 April 1969. More recently, the concept has achieved recognition in the general public in the context of the absence of central indexing servers in architectures used for exchanging multimedia files.\n\nThe concept of peer to peer is increasingly evolving to an expanded usage as the relational dynamic active in distributed networks, i.e. not just computer to computer, but human to human. Yochai Benkler has developed the notion of commons-based peer production to denote collaborative projects such as free software. Associated with peer production are the concept of peer governance (referring to the manner in which peer production projects are managed) and peer property (referring to the new type of licenses which recognize individual authorship but not exclusive property rights, such as the GNU General Public License and the Creative Commons License).
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buy a router\n\nA router (IPA pronunciation: [raʊtɚ] or [rutə(ɚ)]) is a computer networking device that forwards data packets across a network toward their destinations, through a process known as routing. Routing occurs at Layer 3 (the network layer i.e. Internet Protocol (IP)) of the OSI seven-layer protocol stack.\n\nA router acts as a junction between two or more networks to transfer data packets among them. A router is different from a switch. A switch connects devices to form a local area network (LAN).\n\n\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Router
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i guess you mean the Network Types:\n\nLAN:(Local Area Network) Communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. It is made up of servers, workstations, a network operating system and a communications link.\n\nServers are high-speed machines that hold programs and data shared by all network users. The workstations, or clients, are the users' personal computers, which perform stand-alone processing and access the network servers as required. Diskless and floppy-only workstations are sometimes used, which retrieve all software and data from the server. A printer can be attached to a workstation or to a server and be shared by network users.\n\nSmall LANs can allow each workstation to function as a server, allowing all users access to data on all machines. These peer-to-peer networks are often simpler to install and manage, but dedicated servers provide better performance and can handle higher transaction volume. Multiple servers are used in large networks. \n\nThe controlling software in a LAN is the network operating system, such as NetWare, LANtastic and Appletalk, which resides in the server. A component part of the software resides in each workstation and allows the application to read and write data from the server as if it were on the local machine.\n\nThe physical transfer of data is performed by the access method (Ethernet, Token Ring, etc.) which is implemented in the network adapters that plug into the workstations and servers. The actual communications path is the cable (twisted pair, coax, optical fiber) that interconnects each network adapter.\n\nMAN:(Metropolitan Area Network) Communications network that covers a geographic area such as a city or suburb.\n\nWAN:(Wide Area Network) Communications network that covers wide geographic areas, such as states and countries\n\nhope that is what u r looking for,  you can also have a look @: \nhttp://www.comptechdoc.org/independent/networking/cert/\n\nGood luck \n\nhuS
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Many, many things.\nRead here:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_server
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CCNA basically means Cisco Certified Network Associate. It covers totally the part of how to install and configure Cisco Routers and TCP/IP. The next step is CCNP. that is Cisco Certified Network Professionals. But u have to attend the course if u dont have basic knowledge.
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He's basically right.\n\nInternet is what you know. WWW and such.\n\nWhen you connect your PC's together into a network, that's an Intranet.\n\nI believe an Extranet is connecting two Intranets together by way of the Internet.
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Networking on the internet could mean one of two things: What I think you mean is how can you network equipment. Routers (an external piece of equipment) allow someone to network where different computers can share the same files+printer and also access to the internet with only one modem. The modem connects to either a cable or dsl line and then the modem to a router (on its internet or wan port) then other computers connect to the router either on the router directly with an ethernet chord or wirelessly if they have a wireless card. Hope this helps. The second way you can 'network' on the in internet is by by schmoozing with folks to meet friends in high places- :)
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Internet is the whole network of computers that are connected to each other. \nOnline is when you are connected to the internet, or a website that is connected to the internet.
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How are you asking the question? \n\nNetworking in the social sense is meeting people, and knowing people that can help you in life. I'm in college and our professors always tell us to start networking so we can get a job easier after school. I've noticed in Business especially networking is key! It's sad but true, who you know sometimes is better than what you know. Sad but true....
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computers networks are LAN.internet is WAN.\ninternet have a lot of computers inside,that each one has its own configuration,OS,protocols.\ncomputer networks have computers with defined configuration,OS and protocols.\ncomputer networks are alwayes available but internet(mostly) is not available without calling a link(dialup-ADSL-...)\ncomputer network is often use for file sharing and printer sharing and email.but internet is a huge source of every knowledge (it is accessed by internet browsers)
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A network card, network adapter, network interface card or NIC is a piece of computer hardware designed to allow computers to communicate over a computer network
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Hey go to this link and you will find some good information about networking http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question353.htm
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Hi\nplease specify more about kind of networking u mean ,\nWe can say:\n             * Ethernet card \n             * IP address for it(sure operating system with networking capabilities\n             * network cable\n             * another computer connection \n    \nif u need any help just mail me osaka_eng304@yahoo.com\nBye