Poster Child for Impotence Forums Discussion Forums Join our online community. Topology specifies the geometric arrangement of the network.
Common topologies are a bus, ring, and star.
A bus topology means that each computer on the network is attached to a common central cable, called a bus or backbone. This is a rather simple network to set up. Ethernets use this topology. A ring topology means that each computer is connected to two others, and they arranged in a ring shape. These are difficult to set up, but offer high bandwidth.