Labels:box | hakham | keyboard | mouse | sky OCR: NET Jh RK RD -11 Network Hardware n the previous section, you looked at local area network resources and learned about the advantages 0 computer networks Now let's look at the hardware components of a network Ne. two rk Inte rface Cards What establishes the physical connection for the computers in network? network interface card is the Aay hardware component for conne cting computer to local area network network interf face card or NIC (pronounced "nick" small circuit board that sends data from vour workst ation out over the network and collects incoming data tor your workstation. desktop computer NIC plugs into an expansion slot on the computer motherboard notebook computer NIC usually PCMCIA card Figure 7-10 shows vou NICs for desktop pue notebook computers Figure 7-10 Desktop and notebo ...
