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Networking Fundamentals

You're reading from   Networking Fundamentals Develop the networking skills required to pass the Microsoft MTA Networking Fundamentals Exam 98-366

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838643508
Length 510 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gordon Davies Gordon Davies
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Network Infrastructure
2. Differentiating between Internets, Intranets, and Extranets FREE CHAPTER 3. Understanding Local Area Networks 4. Understanding Wide Area Networks 5. Understanding Wireless Networking 6. Network Topologies - Mapping It All Out 7. Section 2: Network Hardware
8. Switches and Switching - Forwarding Traffic on a Local Network 9. Routers and Routing - Beyond a Single Network 10. Media Types - Connecting Everything Together 11. Section 3: Protocols and Services
12. Understanding the OSI Model 13. Understanding TCP/IP 14. Understanding IPv4 15. Understanding IPv6 16. Understanding Name Resolution 17. Network Services 18. Section 4: Mock Exams
19. Mock Exam 1
20. Mock Exam 2
21. Assessments 22. Other Books You May Enjoy

Setting up a broadband connection

In the 1990s, when I got my first computer, most ISPs would provide you with a CD that included software that configured your home connection to their service. These usually would configure your dial-up modem, and in some cases also gave you a graphical user interface to navigate the internet. However, the use of CDs has pretty much faded with the demise of modems. Nowadays, our ISP will provide us with some form of preconfigured home router that will connect directly to the ISP, and all you have to do is connect your devices to the router.

While we can usually connect directly to our ISP-provided hub/router, there may be times when we need to manually configure this broadband connection. In the following activity, we will manually set up a broadband connection.

Because in the real world this requires an account with a service provider, we will...
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