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Introduction to networking

Introduction to networking

We live in an incredible world today where we could 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 smart phones, forget the fancy tablets, forget Google. Let's take it back 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 work together in the same office that we're all hooked together. And the only thing they shared back in the old days was they probably share a printer and they probably share each other's…

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