Internet vs Intranet ? What's the difference ?

[Vinod Bahadur Thapa]

I want the best way to explain a difference between Internet and Intranet?  with example

[ItsTheDuckAgain]

An intranet is a private network accessible only to an organization's staff.

The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.

 

both sentences stolen from wikipedia.......

[Vinod Bahadur Thapa]

1 minute ago, ItsTheDuckAgain said:

An intranet is a private network accessible only to an organization's staff.

The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.

 

both sentences stolen from wikipedia.......

what is that private network like any example of it... so can we say that the internet is a group of intranet 

[ARikozuM]

Intro- = Internal, within the subject.

Inter- = External, away from the subject. 

 

Introversion has to do with how a person responds to stimuli or wishes to be stimulated, i.e. through self-thought or fantasy from the mind. 

Interversion (extroversion, technically, but bear with me) would require stimuli in parties or through simultaneous interactions form outside sources, i.e. get-togethers or groups. 

 

Internet has to do with a source going out of its domain while intranet remain inside their domain. 

 

It's really late, but I hope I made good analogies for this. 

[Vinod Bahadur Thapa]

2 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

Intro- = Internal, within the subject.

Inter- = External, away from the subject. 

 

Introversion has to do with how a person responds to stimuli or wishes to be stimulated, i.e. through self-thought or fantasy from the mind. 

Interversion (extroversion, technically, but bear with me) would require stimuli in parties or through simultaneous interactions form outside sources, i.e. get-togethers or groups. 

 

Internet has to do with a source going out of its domain while intranet remain inside their domain. 

 

It's really late, but I hope I made good analogies for this. 

plz, can you give one more real life examples on it? no, its not late Rather I should thank you bcoz u took some of ur time to help me  

[PineyCreek]

4 minutes ago, Vinod Bahadur Thapa said:

what is that private network like any example of it... so can we say that the internet is a group of intranet 

Simplest example, technically your network at home behind a router using private addressing like 192.168.x.x is its own intranet.

[ARikozuM]

Just now, Vinod Bahadur Thapa said:

plz, can you give one more real life examples on it? no, its not late Rather I should thank you bcoz u took some of ur time to help me  

The intranet would be all of the computers in your house. They can talk to each other if they need to as they're connected to your home's router.

 

[Vinod Bahadur Thapa]

3 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

The intranet would be all of the computers in your house. They can talk to each other if they need to as they're connected to your home's router.

 

thanks, and if we are using google bcoz the server is far away, It means we are using the internet(we called Internet). Ans all those computers in our college department connected through some LAN are using through Intranet(we called intranet)  ... Is it right

[Vinod Bahadur Thapa]

10 minutes ago, PineyCreek said:

Simplest example, technically your network at home behind a router using private addressing like 192.168.x.x is its own intranet.

thanks

[SCHISCHKA]

net = strings that intersect, in this case computer networking is visually abstracted to look like a net

intra = inside

inter = outside

its as simple as that, inside network, outside network.

[Mira Yurizaki]

In most common usage, intranet usually refers to something a large company sets up in order to share resources in a manner similar to the internet. For the companies I've worked at that have one, you access these resources like a website. It makes collaboration and other things easier to do.

[Vinod Bahadur Thapa]

1 minute ago, SCHISCHKA said:

net = strings that intersect, in this case computer networking is visually abstracted to look like a net

intra = inside

inter = outside

its as simple as that, inside network, outside network.

thank you  

[8uhbbhu8]

intranet is like your home network internet is anything from your router out

[8uhbbhu8]

Also why not mark whatever replies solved your problem as such so that you can help others find the answer if they need it  

[slightlyjaded]

11 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

The intranet would be all of the computers in your house. They can talk to each other if they need to as they're connected to your home's router.

 

 

16 minutes ago, Vinod Bahadur Thapa said:

plz, can you give one more real life examples on it? no, its not late Rather I should thank you bcoz u took some of ur time to help me  

 

15 minutes ago, PineyCreek said:

Simplest example, technically your network at home behind a router using private addressing like 192.168.x.x is its own intranet.

 

2 minutes ago, SCHISCHKA said:

net = strings that intersect, in this case computer networking is visually abstracted to look like a net

intra = inside

inter = outside

its as simple as that, inside network, outside network.

Not quite as simple as that. It is actually possible to have an WAN (Wide area network) based Intranet. In fact this is how a lot of major corporations do it, and the basis for a lot of official deep web networks (Those that don't turn up in a google search, or broadcast their IP addresses to a basic search)

 

NSW Health uses such a network for both employee access, and medical record storage. Both are intranets that work in multiple locations. Both have internet based logon for those that are offsite.

[PineyCreek]

Just now, slightlyjaded said:

 

 

 

Not quite as simple as that. It is actually possible to have an WAN (Wide area network) based Intranet. In fact this is how a lot of major corporations do it, and the basis for a lot of official deep web networks (Those that don't turn up in a google search, or broadcast their IP addresses to a basic search)

 

NSW Health uses such a network for both employee access, and medical record storage. Both are intranets that work in multiple locations. Both have internet based logon for those that are offsite.

Of course.  The examples of home networks being an intranet does not preclude expansive business networks linked by private circuits, VPN, etc.  It's all 'internal' to the company.

[RAM555789]

The intranet is the network you control. Any router or switches that you directly have access to and own/control makes up your intranet. The moment it leaves your network and goes to someone elses router you have no control/access to its now out on the internet. The internet is one giant mesh of routers and switches linked through a backbone and core by your ISP.

[8uhbbhu8]

6 minutes ago, slightlyjaded said:

 

 

 

Not quite as simple as that. It is actually possible to have an WAN (Wide area network) based Intranet. In fact this is how a lot of major corporations do it, and the basis for a lot of official deep web networks (Those that don't turn up in a google search, or broadcast their IP addresses to a basic search)

 

NSW Health uses such a network for both employee access, and medical record storage. Both are intranets that work in multiple locations. Both have internet based logon for those that are offsite.

Technically thats a vpn that still uses the internet for tranasit so it really is still 2 separate things. In terms of corporate equipment unless you have a dedicated private line between your buildings or whatever you are using as an end device your accessing over the internet. You could have an incredible amount of security on it and it still would be considered internet traffic because its using public isp lines. Even the deep web is not an intranet due to you using conventional public hardware to access it.

[LienusLateTips]

Internet = The network connected to you outside your modem

 

Intranet = Within the local network. all connected to your modem

 

 

 

think of it like like domestic and international flights. Domestic is the intranet and International is Internet.

[slightlyjaded]

I suspect the above answers are part of the confusion surrounding the question. In small applications the answer is a simple internal Vs External.

 

When you scale it up however you leave the realm of what you directly control. Nobody believes that a bank has a dedicated wholy owned secure connection to each and every branch they own do they? They lease that stuff from the telco's. Yet that secure connection is considered an intranet.

 

That's just one example, but it's the easiest I could come up with that most people can understand. I used the DNS lookup example as the way most people think of the Internet (Capital I, bit like big G god.) However the Internet is not the only internet. It's just the most used, and best known. When two companies start talking too each other then it becomes an internet, like the way travel agents, and transport companies have been talking to each other for years. There's any number of example of each. If someone really wants to go into it deeper then they're welcome to it.

[SCHISCHKA]

27 minutes ago, slightlyjaded said:

 

 

 

Not quite as simple as that. It is actually possible to have an WAN (Wide area network) based Intranet. In fact this is how a lot of major corporations do it, and the basis for a lot of official deep web networks (Those that don't turn up in a google search, or broadcast their IP addresses to a basic search)

 

NSW Health uses such a network for both employee access, and medical record storage. Both are intranets that work in multiple locations. Both have internet based logon for those that are offsite.

it is as simple as that.

Your internet login is accessing an internal network.

Give me every use case of a intranet in the world and these words will still retain their dictionary definitions.

[slightlyjaded]

3 hours ago, SCHISCHKA said:

it is as simple as that.

Your internet login is accessing an internal network.

Give me every use case of a intranet in the world and these words will still retain their dictionary definitions.

Maybe you'd like to read what you quoted again and see what I was saying rather than what you think you read....

 

Australian governments aren't going to pay to run dedicated lines between every site they own. They use a VPN that they lease from a telco...I suspect Telstra in this case. The Australian medical records database is an intranet....That is found in multiple locations, and can be accessed from multiple locations. The internet (little i...see what I did there?) part of it when when an outside network...Like say at a doctor's surgery has to access this from a terminal that isn't directly linked to this intranet.

 

These are not dedicated lines. They just piggyback the regular phone, and data lines that we access as everyday citizens

[SCHISCHKA]

11 minutes ago, slightlyjaded said:

Maybe you'd like to read what you quoted again and see what I was saying rather than what you think you read....

 

Australian governments aren't going to pay to run dedicated lines between every site they own. They use a VPN that they lease from a telco...I suspect Telstra in this case. The Australian medical records database is an intranet....That is found in multiple locations, and can be accessed from multiple locations. The internet (little i...see what I did there?) part of it when when an outside network...Like say at a doctor's surgery has to access this from a terminal that isn't directly linked to this intranet.

 

These are not dedicated lines. They just piggyback the regular phone, and data lines that we access as everyday citizens

I don't know why you are trying to muddle the definition of what intranet and intranet are.

You have some chip on your shoulder trying to print yourself as an authority over the dictionary.

Can someone from the public access this network?

No.

Your use case uses the internet as an access point but it is still an intranet.

intranet = internal network; intranet = external network; and there is nothing wrong with this description.

My definition still holds true under your example and my definition holds true to any networking text book.

In case you have not noticed the OP does not have English as their first language and a simple explanation of the difference between the two words is all that is required.

Throwing in every networking use case in existence and finding cases where the two may cross, achieves what? your e-penis?

Sorry I'm not humouring your e-penis.

[slightlyjaded]

On 8/15/2017 at 8:38 PM, SCHISCHKA said:

I don't know why you are trying to muddle the definition of what intranet and intranet are.

You have some chip on your shoulder trying to print yourself as an authority over the dictionary.

Can someone from the public access this network?

No.

Your use case uses the internet as an access point but it is still an intranet.

intranet = internal network; intranet = external network; and there is nothing wrong with this description.

My definition still holds true under your example and my definition holds true to any networking text book.

In case you have not noticed the OP does not have English as their first language and a simple explanation of the difference between the two words is all that is required.

Throwing in every networking use case in existence and finding cases where the two may cross, achieves what? your e-penis?

Sorry I'm not humouring your e-penis.

I merely pointed out the fact that you didn't read. My E-penis is just fine. thanks for asking.

 

You didn't read, and went in with a preconcieved notion that I was wrong, and you were right. You didn't notice I didn't disagree with you, and merely expanded on a couple of points you made. External access to the intranet was made through the internet... care to reread and comment?

 

EDIT: By the way. I've actually had a warning for doing some of the shiezer you've just pulled.

[Gerr]

Example...

 

You work for company XYZ and they use a lot of internal web applications.  Anytime you go to appname.xyz.com, your are on your company's internal network, aka INTRANET.  When you go to something that isn't on xyz.com, you are hitting the INTERNET, ie outside your company's internal network.