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Networking Basics
Bonk:
There is clearly a need for a thread like this. I'll work on filling it in over the next while.
Topics to be covered:
* Cable vs ADSL vs Dial-Up vs Satellite
* Routers vs Hubs
* LAN vs WAN
* DHCP
* DNS
* Static lan configuration
* NAT / port forwarding
* why pings should be allowed
* UDP and TCP
* Latency vs Bandwidth
* Software firewalls, how to use them and when.
* Where to find manuals and why you should read them in full.
* Workgroups, Domains and Subnets
Those who have the expertise, feel free to help out and correct me where I'm wrong and suggest additional topics. I don't have the patience for working on it today, but this needs to be done.
toasty0:
I am very excited about this thread. I look forward to reading your tutorials, Bonk.
Now you all know I'm a very rabid anti-pinning person, but, man oh man, if any thread ever calls out for pinning, this one does.
Sethan:
Step 1) You get a broadband connection at home.
Step 2) After following the "simple instructions" (which load a CD's worth of unneccessary system tray apps onto your computer), it doesn't work.
Step 3) You spend 3 hours on the phone trying to get it fixed. The first hour of that time is spent on hold, the remainder with a support guy in India who barely speaks English and is reading off a script.
Step 4) Since it still doesn't work after the support call, you call in a friendly neighborhood computer tech. He gets it up and running in 15 minutes (or 2 hours if you are running WinXP), then asks if you are planning to buy an antivirus program and a router. Then he explains why you should get them. Your eyes glaze over. You decide against the extra expense, and pay him for his time. He hands you his card with this cell phone number on it, walks away smiling, and you don't understand why.
Step 5) Shortly after installing AOL, Yahoo, Kazaa, Gator, and Bonzi Buddy onto your computer and surfing a few porn websites, your computer suddenly slows to a crawl, and the only web page it will pull up is on Czechoslovakian vegetable porn, featuring women who look suspiciously like men.
Step 6) You call your friendly neighborhood computer tech back on his cell. "It stopped working!" He arrives in record time (he's been sitting in your driveway since he left the first time), and tells you he'll have to take the computer to fix it. $$$
Step 7) He brings the computer back two days later with antivirus installed on it, explains that some of the programs you had installed were bad (and why), and tells you again you really ought to get a router. Your eyes glazed over once he started talking, and you stopped listening until he mentioned the price of the router. You decide against the extra expense, and write him a check with a large number on it. He walks away whistling...
Step 8) You discover that AOL, Yahoo, Kazaa, Gator, and Bonzi Buddy are not on the computer anymore, so you reinstall them...
...and somewhere your friendly neighborhood computer tech is grinning ear to ear.
Bonk:
:rofl: Good one Sethan! :thumbsup: Czech veggie porn... <chuckle>
This is what I aim to help to prevent, just not today, but I will make an effort to fill the above outline in as soon as I can to avoid repeating myself. And yes Toasty0, once I have filled in some content this thread will be most worthy of a sticky.
Darth Sidious:
Or if the person getting the computer support if the tech's girlfriends mother - add a threat to install a random distro of linux the next time i have to fix the pc again.
--- Quote from: Sethan on September 11, 2005, 10:39:52 pm ---Step 1) You get a broadband connection at home.
Step 2) After following the "simple instructions" (which load a CD's worth of unneccessary system tray apps onto your computer), it doesn't work.
Step 3) You spend 3 hours on the phone trying to get it fixed. The first hour of that time is spent on hold, the remainder with a support guy in India who barely speaks English and is reading off a script.
Step 4) Since it still doesn't work after the support call, you call in a friendly neighborhood computer tech. He gets it up and running in 15 minutes (or 2 hours if you are running WinXP), then asks if you are planning to buy an antivirus program and a router. Then he explains why you should get them. Your eyes glaze over. You decide against the extra expense, and pay him for his time. He hands you his card with this cell phone number on it, walks away smiling, and you don't understand why.
Step 5) Shortly after installing AOL, Yahoo, Kazaa, Gator, and Bonzi Buddy onto your computer and surfing a few porn websites, your computer suddenly slows to a crawl, and the only web page it will pull up is on Czechoslovakian vegetable porn, featuring women who look suspiciously like men.
Step 6) You call your friendly neighborhood computer tech back on his cell. "It stopped working!" He arrives in record time (he's been sitting in your driveway since he left the first time), and tells you he'll have to take the computer to fix it. $$$
Step 7) He brings the computer back two days later with antivirus installed on it, explains that some of the programs you had installed were bad (and why), and tells you again you really ought to get a router. Your eyes glazed over once he started talking, and you stopped listening until he mentioned the price of the router. You decide against the extra expense, and write him a check with a large number on it. He walks away whistling...
Step 8) You discover that AOL, Yahoo, Kazaa, Gator, and Bonzi Buddy are not on the computer anymore, so you reinstall them...
...and somewhere your friendly neighborhood computer tech is grinning ear to ear.
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