Your home network is a computer network you have in your home.
True, but not very helpful? Let’s look a little deeper. Most
people know by now that in order for one computer to share
information with another, it’s necessary to connect them
together in some way. Those connections and the computers that
are part of them form a network. Just like a spider web, when
the trapped fly tugs on one part, a signal is sent to the spider
at the other end. In the case of a home network, the web is made
up of either cables or wireless signals. Those two basic options
make up the difference between what is called a cabled or wired
network versus a wireless network. As recently as five years
ago, a lifetime in the computer world, the wireless option was
complicated and expensive. Today, wireless home networks are
often less expensive and easier to create. At different points
along the web there are junctions called nodes. Those nodes can
be in the form of computers, switches or routers. Switches
provide a place to plug the c