Hey i'm a little confused on how my school network is set up(and no i'm not trying to break into it) Well the computers run on a t1 line. I run a net view and it shows that all of the computers are networked in the whole county. (You can even access their shares) How can these computers share an internet connection that are so far away. (is this a WAN?) I also notice that all of the computers ip's are private(172....) This leads me to believe that the network is running Network Address Translation. I also checked out the gateway(which is in the router) ip address and it is also a private IP?!?!(shouldn't it be outside of the NAT LAN) So to sum things up, how does the router perform all of this? And also we are setting up ftp clients for our webpages we are making. Though you can't ftp to the computers because of the private LAN?!? I guess its impossible to do so.

Thanks again fellas