Benefits of networks

There are may advantages to a computer network:

• Network computers can all use the same printer and other peripherals.
• Computers can use the same data, which allows lots of people to work on a project at the same time.
• Users can comunicate on the netowork and they can log in anywhere and on any machine.
• the processing power of many computers can be combine. this is called distributed processing
• the computers can load software from the same location, which means the users will all have the same version software.this makes it easier to upgrade the software because only one copy needs to be replace.