basic campus networking info
basic campus networking info
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hi!
i am not conversant at all in this area but need some info. basic idea at least. been looking at the internet but got no ideas at all from the diagrams shown. in point form, my questions are:
1. lets say between campus a and campus b, which are in different districts, can they share same internet line but communicate router only between the campus? or must each campus have their own internet line? from the many diagrams i have seen, it looks like they have 1 common internet line but different campus have their own router? i don't see this can work unless there is a special arrangement with the isp to recognise these routers and allow them to be seen as 1 common line. is these possible?
2. are gateways inbuilt into a commonly used switch used by campuses? or are they like our home routers (ie gateway reside in the campus router)?
Thanks in advance.
i am not conversant at all in this area but need some info. basic idea at least. been looking at the internet but got no ideas at all from the diagrams shown. in point form, my questions are:
1. lets say between campus a and campus b, which are in different districts, can they share same internet line but communicate router only between the campus? or must each campus have their own internet line? from the many diagrams i have seen, it looks like they have 1 common internet line but different campus have their own router? i don't see this can work unless there is a special arrangement with the isp to recognise these routers and allow them to be seen as 1 common line. is these possible?
2. are gateways inbuilt into a commonly used switch used by campuses? or are they like our home routers (ie gateway reside in the campus router)?
Thanks in advance.





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So it was possible to shuffle modest files around without great difficulty, and the email system worked just fine.
It was possible, but _glacially_ slow, to open and work on CAD files from remote locations, making it essentially impractical to do so.
I get the impression that each of that company's campuses had its own connection to the internet via a local ISP.
If your campuses are linked by fiber, you might be able to share one internet connection. If they're linked by T1 lines or something slower, your users may or may not notice congestion, depending on what they're trying to do.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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That said, it potentially could result in horrifically bad latencies and bandwidth limitations, particularly if the main router gets bottlenecked. As for what individual components might, or might not, have, that's too complex a question, as there are essentially an infinite variety of hardware configurations possible.
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RE: basic campus networking info
what i don't get is i have a site where i am have been given an ip for a new device to put in. its within the same building with same subnet as some devices i already have installed in that building and i would think same isp but different gateway from the existing gateway address i have for that building.
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i have been assigned a subnet and gateway add but the gateway add is different. it's just my curiosity why how a different gateway comes about. is it because different switches? different router (think this is the case??)?
btw, my system doesn't work if devices are not under the same gateway and though the same subnet.
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Then, that's a fundamental design problem.
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