What are the advantages and disadvantages of stand-alone and networked computers?
A stand-alone computer is much cheaper than more than a local area network, and if it isn’t connected to the internet it is much less likely to be infected by a virus. There is no way it is going to be hacked remotely. Be careful, however as you should still scan all disks, or other external memory devices before retrieving information. Everyone knows the benefits of being connected to the network that is the world wide web, but if you have more than one computer in the house there are advantages to connecting them as a LAN. You can share internet access, files, printers or what ever other features attached to one of the computers. For example if you have a computer in your bedroom with a dvd drive and it’s networked to a computer in your living room which only has a cd drive, you can configure the network so you can play dvd’s and watch the movie at the remote computer. You can also play games across a network and you will find considerable less lag across a local area network (LAN) t
