1) E-mail Email is one of the biggest advantages of internet.

. Email or we can say electronic mail facilitates the user with the liberty of sending mails to anyone he wants to interact with. The sender can send his message which he wants to convey at any point of time in a day whereas the receiver can read the message anytime he logs in to his account. Thus, Emails comes first in the list when we talk about the advantages and disadvantages of internet.
2) Getting in touch There are so many messengers on the internet or net. By those messengers, you can talk to your friends and family. There are special options like voice chat and video chat by which you can talk and can even see your dear ones. There is no limitation of the location or boundaries. You can talk to anyone from anywhere in the world.

3) Information When we talk about the advantages and disadvantages of internet, the main advantage we can see is information. Internet is a new world in itself and you can get any information from this. No matter what your profession is, you can read, learn and retrieve information on your desired topic.

4) Online conversation Many companies are using online conversation to be in touch with their customers. They are building new sites, new email ids so that any normal consumer can get any kind of information regarding the product as well as the company without incurring any cost only with the help of online conversation.
5) Service BPOs and KPOs are functioning because of internet only. They provide their services through net and now becoming one of the highest revenue generating industry in the world. World is getting shorter and nations are getting inter-dependent on each other. All this is possible only because of internet.

1) Insecurity As the whole world is on internet, there is no security. In order to keep your data confidential and secure, you have to take extra precautionary steps. Internet is one of the insecure markets with lots of hackers who work as anti internet agents. 2) Addiction People sometimes get addicted to internet. They keep themselves busy in either social networking sites or just for the entertainment purpose. This might result in some diseases related to eyes and mind. Sometimes because of over sitting, people can have the problem of backache and neck problems also.

3) Virus Virus is the enemy on internet. While discussing about the advantages and disadvantages of internet, virus comes first in the list of its disadvantages. Virus is a kind of problem which occurs in the computers because of internet only. If the frequency is high then it can damage your valuable data as well as corrupt the machine.
4) Spamming Internet is so popular that everyone try to make easy money out of it. As you can use fake information here, some people are taking disadvantage of this and are spamming on internet. They are making us fools by their false and lucrative options and people who are ignorant and new comers get trapped into it. 5) Wrong impression on children Internet is also the home of porn and other stuff which might be harmful for children. This stuff is freely available on internet and you can see the advertisements on any of the local and international website. Children get fascinated towards it and indulge in such bad activities.

1. Network Interface Card ( N IC ) - A network interface card is a computer circuit board that is installed in a computer so that it can be connected to a network.
Figure 1 : Network interface card

2. Access Account - New subscriber needs to subscribe for an account from the service provider (ISP). There are several listed internet service providers in Malaysia such as JARING, TELEKOM MALAYSIA Tmnet There are two ways of accessing the internet: a. Direct access - User computers are directly connected to the internet through a local network server b. Dial-up - accessing the internet is made by making a call through the telephone line to the ISP

3. Wireless Network Interface Card - Is a network card which connects to a radio-based computer network. It uses an antenna to communicate through microwave. A WNIC can operate in two modes known as infrastructure mode and ad hoc mode. In an infrastructure mode network the WNIC needs an access point while an ad hoc mode network the WNIC does not require an access point. 4. Modem ( internal and external ) - Modem is abbreviation for modulator/demodulator. It is a device that enables a computer transmits data over telephone or cable lines. Computer information is store digitally, whereas information transmitted over telephone lines is transmitted in the form analog waves. A modem converts between these two forms. There are two types of modem, external and internal modem. External modem can be attached to any computer that has an RS-232 port. An internal modem is an expansion board that can be inserted into vacant expansion slot in a computer.

EXTERNAL MODEM

INTERNAL MODEM

5. Hub / Switch A hub is a device acting as the cable center of a network that uses to connect segments of LAN and has either 8 or 16 port. Hub broadcasts the data that it receives from one port to all of its port. A switch can also connect multiple communication lines and it can receive packets from different protocol. Switch is more intelligent than a hub as it will on only deliver the data to the particular port. This actually helps to make the network significantly faster. It filters and forward packers between a LAN segments.
6. Router - A router is attached to two or more networks an forwards Packets form one network to another. It acts as a junction between two or more networks to butter and transfer data packets among them 7. Wireless Access Point - Wireless access point or AP is a device that connects wireless communication devices together to form a wireless network. It is usually connects to a wired network and can relay data between wireless and wired devices.