Talk:Computer network

Article Checklist for "Computer network"

Workgroup category or categories	Computers Workgroup [Categories OK]
Article status	Developing article: beyond a stub, but incomplete
Underlinked article?	No
Basic cleanup done?	Yes
Checklist last edited by	Markus Baumeister 11:00, 18 March 2007 (CDT)

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Just some comments on the intentions of the article:

• It is meant as an overview article forwarding people to the relevant articles. As such it is IMHO already quite long. So major extensions (and maybe also smaller ones) should probably go into an new, linked article.
• I started with the applications and not the protocols because I think it is more natural for non-CS people to learn what is done with networks, what that means for the qualities networks must have to finally stop to understand things when the technicalities are explained.
• Any ideas on figures/pictures to show?

--Markus Baumeister 18:33, 11 March 2007 (CDT)

I added a link to Network topology, and threw some rough diagrams up of a bus network and ring network. There's a lot more to add though... --Eric M Gearhart 03:12, 1 April 2007 (CDT)

I just threw 'Category:CZ Live' on this article... it was created from scratch, right? --Eric M Gearhart 10:29, 2 April 2007 (CDT)

Yes. BTW, I moved the topology section to after the QoS bullet as otherwise the "How 'guaranteed' are the above attributes" of QoS doesn't work anymore. Topology is not influenced by QoS. And then there is the more general problem how to distinguish whether topology is a "feature" (I only thought about measurable things for that) or a "categorization". Markus Baumeister 15:15, 2 April 2007 (CDT)