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WANs and routers
From the course: CompTIA A+ Core 1 (220-1101) Cert Prep
WANs and routers
What I got in front of me is what we call a 24 point Switch. Now, these Switches are based on a standard called Ethernet, which we've been using for ages and ages. Ethernet is absolutely amazing and works incredibly well. Our Ethernet frame, sending data back and forth in our LAN using the MAC addresses, everything Is fantastic as long as you keep it relatively small. So if I'm using this Switch, the most computers I could put on one local area network would be 24. Well, there actually is a way to interconnect Switches, but the Ethernet standard itself says you will never, ever put more than 1024 computers on a single Switch or a bunch of daisy chained Switches. There's reasons for that. First of all, when you're looking at a local area network, there's a lot of stuff going on. Let me show you what I mean. On this particular local area network, I've got two computers, A and B. Now, these two computers are hooked to three…
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