what does Networking mean?
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text book answer:\nDefinitions of networking on the Web:\n\nUsing contacts made in business for purposes beyond the reason for the initial contact. For example, a sales representative may ask a customer for names of others who may be interested in his product.\nwww.onlinewbc.gov/docs/starting/glossary.html\n\nThis is the inter- or intra-exchange of services or information between different individuals, groups, companies, or institutions.\nwww.satellite-tv-hq.com/telecom-glossary-n.htm\n\nmeeting people who can be of help to you and being a help to them.\ncfdccariboo.com/glossary.htm\n\nThe linking of a number of devices, such as computers, workstations, printers, and AV gear into a network (system) for the purpose of sharing resources. Progressive Scan The process of creating an image on a screen by scanning or illuminating each line in the image one after the other. Return to the top Rear Projection TV A type of television in which the image is projected onto a screen from behind. SDTV Short for Standard Definition TV. ...\nwww.bjorns.com/glossary.html\n\nNetwork occurs any time you connect two or more computers together so that they can share resources.\nwww.intensedevelopment.net/website-design-N.html\n\nopportunities of all kinds and at all levels.\nwww.solentforum.hants.org.uk/forum/intro.html\n\n(1) Connecting with people of like interests for the purpose of uncovering opportunities, identifying landmines and learning of best practices.\nit.csumb.edu/departments/data/glossary.html\n\nProcess of finding out about potential clients from friends, business contacts, co-workers, acquaintances, and fellow members in professional and civic organizations. Network Service Provider (NSP) Put definition here.\nwww.uta.edu/infosys/e_comm/terms/term_n.htm\n\nPeer-to-peer networking (P2P) is an application that runs on a personal computer and shares files with other users across the Internet. P2P networks work by connecting individual computers together to share files instead of having to go through a central server.\nwww.netalert.net.au/01990-Glossary.asp\n\nAn automated communication system offered from the NSCC, providing broker dealers with fund account daily activity and maintenance as well as providing funds with dealer requests for account maintenance.\nwww.heritagefunds.com/invsvc_glossary.htm\n\nThe process of accessing and manipulating files through communications pathways between workstations, printout devices such as print servers, and storage units such as file servers.\nwww.careydigital.com/support/glossaryn-q.html\n\nProvides design, programming, development and operational support for LANs, WANs and other networks. Supports client/server applications, provides telephony support, high-speed or real-time audio and video support. May develop and/or utilize bridges, routers, gateways, and transport media\nsalaryadvisor.informationweek.com/ibi_html/iwsal99/definitions.htm\n\nCouples advertise, send letters, or circulate resumes to locate a birth mother.\nwww.adoptionlady.com/Adoption%20Terms.htm\n\nA system of connecting computer systems or peripheral devices, each one remote from the other.\nwww.indiainfoline.com/bisc/matn.html\n\nTwo or more devices (or people) that communicate with each other and share resources.\nwww.pricedrightllc.com/id27.html\n\nConsists of software/hardware in combination systematically linking a number of devices (computers, workstations, printers) into a network (system) for the purpose of sharing resources.\nwww.pera.net/Tools/Glossary/Enterprise_Integration/Glossary_N.html\n\nIn a virtual circuit; a logical connection between two endpoints in a network, providing reliable, in a sequence, error-free delivery of the packets sent over the virtual circuit. (telecommunications) A physical media connection between two communications devices.\nwww.iec-usa.com/Browse02/GLSC.html
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A network topology is the method in which nodes of a network are connected by links. A given node has one or more links to others, and the links can appear in a variety of different shapes. The simplest connection is a one-way link between two devices. A second return link can be added for two-way communication. Modern communications cables usually include more than one wire in order to facilitate this, although very simple bus-based networks have two-way communication on a single wire.
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it do mean  network card
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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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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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A local area network (LAN) is a computer network covering a small local area, like a home, office, or small group of buildings such as a college. Current LANs are most likely to be based on switched Ethernet or Wi-Fi technology running at from 10 to 10000 Mbps. The defining characteristics of LANs in contrast to WANs are: a) much higher data rates, b) smaller geographic range and c) they do not involve leased telecommunication lines.\n\nMetropolitan Area Networks or MANs are relatively large computer networks usually spanning a campus or a city. They typically use wireless infrastructure or optical fiber connections to link their sites.\n\nA wide area network or WAN is a computer network covering a wide geographical area, involving a vast array of computers. WANs 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.
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(m)\n\nThe Internet, or simply the Net, is the publicly accessible worldwide system of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using a standardized Internet Protocol (IP). It is made up of thousands of smaller commercial, academic, domestic, and government networks. It carries various information and services, such as electronic mail, online chat, and the interlinked Web pages and other documents of the World Wide Web.\n\nContrary to some common usage, the Internet and the World Wide Web are not synonymous: the Internet is a collection of interconnected computer networks, linked by copper wires, fiber-optic cables, wireless connections etc.; the Web is a collection of interconnected documents, linked by hyperlinks and URLs, and is accessible using the Internet.
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A wireless LAN or WLAN is a wireless local area network that uses radio waves as its carrier: the last link with the users is wireless, to give a network connection to all users in the surrounding area. Areas may range from a single room to an entire campus. The backbone network usually uses cables, with one or more wireless access points connecting the wireless users to the wired network.
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suman namburi's answer is partially correct.  \n\nBy Princeton University's WordNet definition, a port is also physical; a port comprises the hardware and associated circuitry that link one device with another, especially a computer and a hard disk drive or other peripherals.\n\nHowever, in networking, a port IS a logical connecting point for a process.
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Networking is talking about computers not people.\n\nLots of water, walking, crunches (half sit ups).
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basic?  Um, a group of computers that can talk to each other is a network.  they all have to be connected to do this.  the is usually done in a home, or office.  vpn is a way to get a computer that is somewhere else to join a local network.
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A local area network (LAN) is a computer network covering a small local area, like a home, office, or small group of buildings such as a college. Current LANs are most likely to be based on switched Ethernet or Wi-Fi technology running at from 10 to 1000Mb/s (megabits per second). The defining characteristics of LANs in contrast to WANs are: (a) much higher data rates, (b) smaller geographic range and (c) they do not involve leased telecommunication lines.\n\nTechnical aspects\nAlthough switched Ethernet is now most common at the physical layer, and TCP/IP as a protocol, historically many different options have been used (see below) and some continue to be popular in niche areas. Larger LANs will have redundant links, and routers or switches capable of using spanning tree protocol and similar techniques to recover from failed links.LANs will have connections to other LANs via routers and leased lines to create a WAN. Most will also have connections to the large public network known as the Internet, and links to other LANs can be 'tunnelled' across this using VPN technologies.
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Internet = Wide Area Network (WAN)\nEthernet = Local Area Network (LAN)\n\nEthernet is used in homes, offices, schools or any network that is in a limited area. When many Ethernet networks are connected together, they form the Internet. However, Ethernet networks can function without connecting to the Internet.
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The Internet is the infrastructure of the overall network, i.e. the nuts and the bolts.  Basically it amounts to the physical hardware, software, cabling, protocols, etc. required for running the network.  The Web is one application which is an overlay over the Internet.  Other applications are email, file transfer, remote login, file sharing (P2P), audio-video streaming, VoIP, etc.
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Dial up:  \nconnection of a computer to the Internet by a modem using existing telephone lines\n\nBroadband:\nBroadband in general refers to data transmission where multiple pieces of data are sent simultaneously to increase the effective rate of transmission. In network engineering this term is used for methods where two or more signals share a medium.\n\nLAN (Local Area Network):\nA local area network (LAN) is a computer network covering a small local area, like a home, office, or small group of buildings such as a college. Current LANs are most likely to be based on switched Ethernet or Wi-Fi technology running at from 10 to 1000Mb/s (megabits per second). The defining characteristics of LANs in contrast to WANs are: (a) much higher data rates, (b) smaller geographic range and (c) they do not involve leased telecommunication lines.
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network, in computing, two or more computers connected for the purpose of routing, managing, and storing rapidly changing data. A local area network (LAN), which is restricted by distances of up to one mile, and a metropolitan area network (MAN), which is restricted to distances of up to 60 miles, connect personal computers and workstations (each called a node) over dedicated, private communications links. A wide area network (WAN) connects large numbers of nodes over long-distance communications links, such as common carrier telephone lines, over distances ranging from that between major metropolitan centers to that between continents. An internet is a connection between networks. The Internet is a WAN that connects thousands of disparate networks in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, and elsewhere, providing global communication between nodes on government, educational, and industrial networks. Networks allow for resource sharing (e.g., multiple computers sharing one printer), data sharing, and communication or data exchange (e.g., electronic mail).\n\n\n--\nhi, i have noticed that you are not voting for the answers that you recieve. I think that is good, as that ways, you encourage people to coem back and answer you, as 1. you help them make points by voting for their answers, 2. everyone wants to know what was considered the best answer by you, though it might not be their own.\nSo, do that. keep asking and answering!\n--
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A local-area network (LAN) protocol developed by Xerox Corporation in cooperation with DEC and Intel in 1976. It is one of the most widely implemented LAN standards. Local network generally offering a throughput of 10 Mbps or 100 Mbps.A common way of networking PCs to create a LAN.