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What makes a file-sharing LAN?

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PantherModern1

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This question has been killing me for a while now:
What separates these two cases:
1) Subscribers of an ISP like adelphia who all live in the same city and go through the same Adelphia router.
2) Kids who live in a dorm that has a router (NOT hub) that controls all packets for the dorm and to the internet.
In both cases all the users have the same router, but in only the second case will file-sharnig applications like OurTunes work.
What's the difference?
 
You have a car and few friends. You can offer a Ride and all of you can share the car.

The Car is a LAN; each sit in the car is a computer.

You are in your Car and each one of your friends is in his own Car.

You can Not Share a Ride coz each one is on his own.

The Roads system in the city is like the Adelphia WAN, and each car is its own account.

However, you can talk to your friend over a Cell phone.

Link to: How to connect to a computer/Network Server though the Internet?

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