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| | Basic PC Network Information |
 | | A bus network is the simplest to explain and draw, but its not often the simplest one to use, especially if computers are distributed around various offices in a building, and then get added, taken away, moved around and so forth. |
 | | This is called a star network, but as far as the electrical signals are concerned, they go from one computer to every other computer, no different than the bus network. |
 | | When networks get really big, with 100s of systems or more, its no longer such a good idea to have each computer look at every packet, because almost none of the packets will be for that computer. |
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