Week 8 Posting - Lan vs Wan

 Ever since computers were created, we tried to connect them from hardwire to Wi-Fi. Most recently we have used the internet protocol version 4, with the limited number of connections IPv4 offers there was a concern that we would run out. To overcome this issue the creation of internal networks was created, basically working by having multiple connections use a single IPv4 external address. Once the separation of networks was created, we specified a network based on what side it is, on the internal side we use IP ranges from 10.x.x.x, 172.16-32.x.x and 192.168.x.x every IP that falls into one of those categories should be specified as an internal IP or a LAN address. On the other side of the network, it is the WAN side.

Mumford, A. (2019, July 15). What's the difference between a Lan and a wan? Purple. Retrieved July 30, 2022, from https://purple.ai/blogs/whats-the-difference-between-a-lan-and-a-wan/#:~:text=A%20LAN%2C%20abbreviated%20from%20Local,that%20can%20span%20the%20globe.

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