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quagmondo23

quagmondo23

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I want to start learning about networks and stuff. I started a few things on the internet and thay are quite confusing for a "n00b" like me. I want to learn about general stuff but want a comprehensive guide. Any links to websites or books would be appreciated. Thanks
 
quagmondo23 said:
I want to start learning about networks and stuff. I started a few things on the internet and thay are quite confusing for a "n00b" like me. I want to learn about general stuff but want a comprehensive guide. Any links to websites or books would be appreciated. Thanks
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What do you want to do????

A Home network... pls explain what you want to do so we can help you.
 
Learn about networks and how they work. General stuff, I don't want to learn how to make a network just understand how it works.
 
For example my home network is.

What happens is when we built the house.... dad networked the house so pretty much the bedrooms and some of the main rooms had a network port. Then in the study dad has the plugs in the wall, and we connect a lead from the wall into a Network hub. The network hub is connected to our router. So then that provides the house with internet. We also have a wireless link on the roof of the house to go to my grandparents house 3kms up the road. So they have internet as well. At their end the have a hub so they can have their 2 computers on the internet.

Then each of the computers have file sharing enabled so we can share files around the network. Like my computer is the main computer for music and i have set up the computers to have my sharing folder as a network hard drive so they can access music easy.

Then the computer with XP pro i have enable remote desktop connection so i can do that and my brother and system which are younger than me.

Pic of the wireless link



But that how it all works and I'm sure other people can you.

you can also run servers, but that gets complicated......
 
well yeah internet is kinda long topic. altho it is the one i love.

Some basics.

All computers run on what is called tcp/ip. Back in dinosaur age, DCIscouts, Ian, or other dinosaur should know about them :D joke :P but they did not have a "real" way of talking, they had the mac protocol, the ibm etc but eventually it got standardised to tcp/ip. What tcp/ip is is the piratical on which all computers talk to each other. The ip address (192.168.1.1, 127.0.0.1, etc) are assigned because of that protocol. At the time we are in version v4 (tcp/ip V4) which is hoe we have the range 255.255.255.255 that gives us 4,228,250,625 ip addresses we can give out. However that is not enough. Soon (5+ years) we are going to tcp/ip V6 so now the ip addresses will be 255.255.255.255.255 or 192.168.1.1.1 so 5 decimal points which will allow 1,078,203,909,375 addresses to be given out.

So the ip address is like an address. lets say you send info to some company via the mail. you want to get a package. You send it to 321 east Brooklyn st. you send it to them, they look at it and then send you back what you asked for to the address you gave them. What i just said is what a computer does on the internet. You send a request to the servers ip address (take for example CF, ip address 69.16.225.146) so your computer sends for a page, the server looks at that request and sends what you requested back to your ip address in which it is displayed on the screen.

Next thing to talk about it the internet and your intranet. the internet is Everyone and everything on the internet. every computer looking at a web page from a remote location is on the internet. However if they are on via NAT (network address translation) so if your ip address on your computer is, 192.168.0.0, 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0, 172.31.0.0 your behind a NAT. but with a NAT you can have a intranet which is a internet only accessible to yourselves. right now if you are in a nat you have a intranet even if you dont know it. try going to your ip address that is on gateway in your ip settings. that is your router (creats the nat) but only you can access that from inside.

well my fingers are geting tired so i will pause here and let your eyes hurt. :P i will pick up later
 
yeah, i have to say that is the longest post i think i have ever posted. ever. and to think i have to continue on my 7 paragraph op-ed essay for shcool due tomorow. i wish you asked about difference/tollerence :P



but i do like typing about network a lot more then this essay
 
brian said:
yeah, i have to say that is the longest post i think i have ever posted. ever. and to think i have to continue on my 7 paragraph op-ed essay for shcool due tomorow. i wish you asked about difference/tollerence :P



but i do like typing about network a lot more then this essay
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I'd rather type about computers or something esle then an english topic for an essay!!!!! :rolleyes:

Anyway we better keep on the topic:)
 
brian said:
well yeah internet is kinda long topic. altho it is the one i love.

Some basics.

All computers run on what is called tcp/ip. Back in dinosaur age, DCIscouts, Ian, or other dinosaur should know about them :D joke :P but they did not have a "real" way of talking, they had the mac protocol, the ibm etc but eventually it got standardised to tcp/ip. What tcp/ip is is the piratical on which all computers talk to each other. The ip address (192.168.1.1, 127.0.0.1, etc) are assigned because of that protocol. At the time we are in version v4 (tcp/ip V4) which is hoe we have the range 255.255.255.255 that gives us 4,228,250,625 ip addresses we can give out. However that is not enough. Soon (5+ years) we are going to tcp/ip V6 so now the ip addresses will be 255.255.255.255.255 or 192.168.1.1.1 so 5 decimal points which will allow 1,078,203,909,375 addresses to be given out.

So the ip address is like an address. lets say you send info to some company via the mail. you want to get a package. You send it to 321 east Brooklyn st. you send it to them, they look at it and then send you back what you asked for to the address you gave them. What i just said is what a computer does on the internet. You send a request to the servers ip address (take for example CF, ip address 69.16.225.146) so your computer sends for a page, the server looks at that request and sends what you requested back to your ip address in which it is displayed on the screen.

Next thing to talk about it the internet and your intranet. the internet is Everyone and everything on the internet. every computer looking at a web page from a remote location is on the internet. However if they are on via NAT (network address translation) so if your ip address on your computer is, 192.168.0.0, 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0, 172.31.0.0 your behind a NAT. but with a NAT you can have a intranet which is a internet only accessible to yourselves. right now if you are in a nat you have a intranet even if you dont know it. try going to your ip address that is on gateway in your ip settings. that is your router (creats the nat) but only you can access that from inside.

well my fingers are geting tired so i will pause here and let your eyes hurt. :P i will pick up later
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Wow, thank you Brian. Thats the kind of thing I want but in more detail, like the tcp/ip protocol and stuff. Also, thanks vk3fcll I will take a look at those links.
 
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