Parts of Networks
Computing: Year 5 & 6 National Curriculum, topic 2.1.1
Parts of Networks
Computer networks connect lots of computers. Computer networks can be connected by wires, ethernet cables or wirelessly using radio waves.
The internet as a network
- Any device which accesses the Internet becomes part of a network.
Networks of computers
- Networks are often part of the Internet.
- But networks do not always have to be part of the Internet.
- Computers on a network can share devices such as printers.
Nodes and hubs
- Each computer on the network is called a node.
- Different parts of the network are sometimes connected in one place.
- This place where different parts of the network are connected is the hub.
The network server
- Resources and programs can be stored or run on a special computer.
- This special computer is the network server.
Test yourself on Parts of Networks
What do you call a group of computers that are connected together?
What is the word that describes each computer on the network?
What is the name for the special computer that stores and runs resources and programs?
What are the ways to connect computer networks?