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Cables and connectors
From the course: CompTIA A+ Core 1 (220-1101) Cert Prep
Cables and connectors
Look, I know we live in a world where everybody thinks all of the Internet is wireless. But the reality is, is that wired connections are the backbone of what makes our networking and the Internet work. So in this episode, I want to go through the different types of cables and connectors you might run into for a network. Now, the thing you need to understand is that right now the predominant networking is called Ethernet. So Ethernet defines our frames, Ethernet defines how the network cards work, but Ethernet also defines the type of cabling and connectors we use. Now, there's also some alternatives to this. For example, DOCSIS, better known as cable modems. They have their connectors and we'll touch on those as well. But what's important is that there are lots of different versions of Ethernet. So they have names like, for example, let me put one up on the screen. This is 10Base-T, 10 stands for ten megabits per second, base…
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