Internet connections and network types matching lab

Match fiber, DSL, satellite, and SAN tickets; leave WLAN-as-WAN and WISP-as-Wi-Fi unused.

Match each connection/network-type ticket. Leave WLAN-as-WAN and WISP-as-Wi-Fi unused.

CompTIA 2.7 is plant vs network-type vocabulary: fiber, cable, DSL, satellite, cellular, WISP, plus LAN/WAN/PAN/MAN/SAN/WLAN — not marketing speed claims.

Clinic wants low-latency telehealth and big imaging uploads

Plant choice for interactive apps and fat uplink — not 'whatever is cheapest'.

Rural shop still on phone copper; speed worse farther from town

Copper last mile where distance from the exchange kills sync.

Ranch with no cable/fiber; only sky coverage works

Coverage wins; accept the latency hit for VoIP.

Hypervisor cluster needs shared block LUNs, not SMB folders

Storage fabric role — not a department file server.

Still on the bench

Fiber handoff / ONT — low latency, high throughput — Fiber to the premise (ONT) is the preferred plant when interactive voice/video and big uploads matter.
DSL over telephone copper — distance from the CO matters — DSL shares the phone pair. Far from the CO, sync rates collapse. Not cable DOCSIS.
Satellite ISP — coverage everywhere, high latency — Great for remote sites with no terrestrial plant. Bad for VoIP/gaming because of RTT.
SAN — dedicated block-storage network, not a file share — SAN presents LUNs/block to servers. NAS is files over SMB/NFS. Do not swap the acronyms.
Call the ISP uplink a WLAN because it is wireless — WLAN is 802.11 LAN. A cellular or WISP uplink is still a WAN handoff, not a WLAN.
Treat WISP fixed wireless as the same as office Wi-Fi — WISP is a fixed-wireless ISP last mile. Office WLAN is local 802.11. Different roles.