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Introduction to networking

Introduction to networking

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Introduction to networking

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- We live in an incredible world today, where we can use our smartphones and get all kinds of information, or we can sit at our desktops and play incredible games with other people in real time. It is a great, great time to be a tech. However, the CompTIA A+ really wants you to understand networking in a deep and profound way. So if you really want to understand networking, well enough to be able to pass the A+ and to succeed as a technician out there, we've got to bring it down a little bit. Forget the smartphones, forget the fancy tablets, forget Google. Let's take it down to a simpler world. A time before the internet. A time when networking was really just for a few computers, maybe five computers, maybe 15, maybe 20 computers that worked together in the same office that were all hooked together. And the only thing they shared back in the old days was they'd probably share a printer and they'd probably share each other's folders so that we could access each other's Microsoft Word…

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