This document summarizes a research paper that evaluates the performance of wired and wireless local area networks using simulation. It describes simulating Ethernet and IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs in OPNET with varying numbers of users. Key performance metrics for wired networks like collision count, throughput, and delay were analyzed. For wireless, metrics like data dropped, throughput, and access delay were studied. As the number of users increased, throughput decreased more for wireless than wired due to transmission limitations in wireless. The paper concludes wireless performs better than wired for small user numbers but degrades more with increasing loads.