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Networking Practical

Make LAN cables, set IP addresses and configure a Wi-Fi router

  • Free ebook
  • Beginner to intermediate
  • 29 pages
  • 120 KB
  • PDF, English
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About this ebook

What you will learn

A hands-on guide to small office and home networks. You will make and test your own LAN cables, understand IP addresses, subnet masks, gateways and DNS, set static and automatic addresses in Windows, use ipconfig, ping and tracert to find faults, set up a Wi-Fi router safely and share files and printers.

Who it is for

Hardware and networking students and office technicians.

Contents

  1. Networks and the devices that build them
  2. Network cables, categories and connectors
  3. Colour codes: T568A and T568B
  4. Crimping a straight-through cable
  5. Testing cables and finding faults
  6. IP addresses, subnet masks, gateways and DNS
  7. DHCP and static addresses
  8. Checking a network with ipconfig, ping and tracert
  9. Setting up a Wi-Fi router
  10. Sharing files and printers, and a troubleshooting table

At the end of the book

  • Practice questionsTo check what you have learnt, with the answers after them.
  • GlossaryThe key words of the book, each explained in one sentence.
  • Easy EnglishShort sentences and everyday words, with each new word explained the first time.

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