https://www.compilemymind.com/tags/wan/ Recent content in Wan on Compile My Mind Hugo en Tue, 22 Sep 2026 11:37:53 +0300 https://www.compilemymind.com/posts/lan-vs-wan-vs-vlan/ Tue, 22 Sep 2026 11:37:53 +0300 https://www.compilemymind.com/posts/lan-vs-wan-vs-vlan/ <p>Two laptops sit on adjacent desks. Both cables lead to the same switch. One laptop can reach the payroll server; the other cannot.</p> <p>Meanwhile, an employee hundreds of kilometers away opens that same server through a branch-office connection.</p> <p>The nearby devices are physically closer, but the distant one has the permitted path. This is the point where the familiar labels <em>LAN</em>, <em>WAN</em>, and <em>VLAN</em> stop being vocabulary and become a useful way to reason about traffic.</p>