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Your Home Network

Ethernet Cable

CAT5

Look no wires…WIFI

The price of Wire free

InterferenceEasier to hackSlower – LatencyMore processing power for the

PC

Bandwidth and Latency

Bandwidth is the capacity….

Latency is the traffic jam, what is the delay?

VoIP

Voice over Internet protocol

Free voice calls

With a Webcam can also make video calls

But on 3G can be more expensive than voice minutes

POP IMAP

Needs connection to Server when writing emails

Email on Server

Searchable

Less likely to lose email

Less work for Server

Email stored on Client

Can download email and login again later to send email

HTTP VS HTTPS

http can be read by anybody who has access to any of the servers on the Internet route that your request takes

https is encrypted – Only the servers at either end know what is going on…

Does NOT mean you can trust the server…