Labels:book | chair | crt screen | desk | hakham | laptop | monitor | mountain | person | plant | sky | table | windowpane OCR: 274 CHAPTER SECTION Using LANs LANS HAVE BECOME an integral part of computing environments at home, at school and at work Many LANs are installed solely for distrib- uting access to an Internet I connection. That facet of LANs will be discussed in the next chapter. What else can you do with aLAN? Section D helps you explore the advantages and disadvantages of LANs as well as provides practical tips on how share files and printers. LAN ADVANTAGES AND CHALLENGES Why are LANs advantageous? Today, the pervasiveness of LANs and other types of networks has dramatically changed the face computing by offering shared resources- -hardware, software, and data made available for authorized network users to access. LANs offer the following advan- tages: LANs enable people to work together. Using groupw ...
