1. Draw a simple bus topology on your sheet of paper. Connect four computers to the backbone, or bus. Write A, B, C, and D on the machines. 2. Now, imagine that a person at computer A needs to open a file on computer D in a peer-to-peer way. How do you think the info will move from A to D and back to A? Add a dashed line to show this path on your network map. 3. On the other side of the paper, use no more than half a page to draw a star topology with four computers connected to a centre device for connecting them. Mark the desks with the letters E, F, G, and H.
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1. Draw a simple bus topology on your sheet of paper. Connect four computers to the backbone, or bus. Write A, B, C, and D on the machines.
2. Now, imagine that a person at computer A needs to open a file on computer D in a peer-to-peer way. How do you think the info will move from A to D and back to A? Add a dashed line to show this path on your network map.
3. On the other side of the paper, use no more than half a page to draw a star topology with four computers connected to a centre device for connecting them. Mark the desks with the letters E, F, G, and H.
4. Let's say that a user at computer E wants to view a file that is on the hard drive of computer H. This is called peer-to-peer. Draw the path you think the data would take between these two computers with a dashed line.
5. Now, add a printer and a server to your picture of a network with a star topology. You have changed the network from a peer-to-peer network to a client/server network by adding a server. All of the people who use workstations can now share the printer.
6. Let's say that the new server is set up to offer all of the necessary services to the whole star topology network, such as print and file services. Now, if computer G sends a document to the printer, how do you think the document's info will get to the printer? Draw a dashed line along this path on your network.
7. Modern networks aren't always as easy as star, bus, or ring topologies. A star-bus structure is made when two or more star-shaped networks are linked together by a bus. On the same piece of paper, draw a second star topology network with three computers labelled I, J, and K that are connected to a central device for connecting.
8. Now, draw a line between the two linking points to show that the star-based networks are linked by a bus. You have now set up a network with a mixed star-bus topology.
9. Let's say that machine J wants to print to the printer you added in Step 5. Use a dashed line to show how you think the paper from workstation J will get to the printer. Keep in mind that the server is still in charge of all printing on that network.
10. Which one of the three types of networks you worked on for this project do you think would be the easiest to grow?
11. Which of the three networks would cost the least to set up, taking into account the amount of gear and cabling needed?
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