Sams Teach Yourself Networking in 24 Hours
by Joe Habraken
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Manufacturer: Sams
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.6
EAN: 9780672326080
ISBN: 0672326086
Label: Sams
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: 2004-05-13
Publisher: Sams
Studio: Sams
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Worth the money
Comment: An exellent introduction to networking. Easy to understand and well laid out. Covers a broad range of subjects. The only down side is that is is not as technical as some may require.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent for networking wanna-be's & home-LAN hobbyists
Comment: Hayden was entertaining and informative. This is an excellent reference for those interested in setting up home-based LANS with little or no prior experience. As an introduction to a complicated subject, Hayden succeeded in giving this reader plenty "ah-hahs" in each chapter.
The book is limited in its coverage of the real world problems that make up the bulk of the networking profession, but these readers won't be trying to learn networking in 24 hours anyway. If you are going to have just one networking book on your shelf, make it this one.
I will be considering other Sams books in the future.
Customer Rating:
Summary: not worth the time
Comment: This book is cheap conpared to most computer books and there is a reason for that. The thing that you'll waste, other than money, is your precious time. He repeats many things throughout the book. When you finish some of the chapters you realize that there was nothing, it was a desperate attempt to add another chapter. Some chapters are less than 4 pages!!!!!! Of course you can finish that in in less than an hour. The topics that he talks about the most are Win NT, NetWare and UNIX and he mentiones how they came into existance at least 3 times throughout the book. I can concentrate all the information from the book and put it onto 10-15 pages, not the 425 he managed to streach it onto. This was the third of the 24 hour books I've read, and it will be the last. Save yourself the time and spend the extra money for the other types of books out there. I would only recomend this book to a total begginer and one that dosen't really want to get into depth about networking. And by that I mean you learn about routers, cables and switches, nothing more, the rest of the book is gibberish. But most people aren't like that. I really recomend you look for another book.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Concise, yet in-depth!!!
Comment: I believe Hayden hits all the major concepts well. Without dulling the issues with unecessary rhetoric! His analogies make the theory parts work well together. "B-Luv"
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great book!!!
Comment: This book was absolutely the best I've read in a while. It is down to earth and simple to understand. Matt Hayden did an excellent job of making this book readable to dummies and techies alike.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Worth the money
Comment: An exellent introduction to networking. Easy to understand and well laid out. Covers a broad range of subjects. The only down side is that is is not as technical as some may require.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent for networking wanna-be's & home-LAN hobbyists
Comment: Hayden was entertaining and informative. This is an excellent reference for those interested in setting up home-based LANS with little or no prior experience. As an introduction to a complicated subject, Hayden succeeded in giving this reader plenty "ah-hahs" in each chapter.
The book is limited in its coverage of the real world problems that make up the bulk of the networking profession, but these readers won't be trying to learn networking in 24 hours anyway. If you are going to have just one networking book on your shelf, make it this one.
I will be considering other Sams books in the future.
Customer Rating:
Summary: not worth the time
Comment: This book is cheap conpared to most computer books and there is a reason for that. The thing that you'll waste, other than money, is your precious time. He repeats many things throughout the book. When you finish some of the chapters you realize that there was nothing, it was a desperate attempt to add another chapter. Some chapters are less than 4 pages!!!!!! Of course you can finish that in in less than an hour. The topics that he talks about the most are Win NT, NetWare and UNIX and he mentiones how they came into existance at least 3 times throughout the book. I can concentrate all the information from the book and put it onto 10-15 pages, not the 425 he managed to streach it onto. This was the third of the 24 hour books I've read, and it will be the last. Save yourself the time and spend the extra money for the other types of books out there. I would only recomend this book to a total begginer and one that dosen't really want to get into depth about networking. And by that I mean you learn about routers, cables and switches, nothing more, the rest of the book is gibberish. But most people aren't like that. I really recomend you look for another book.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Concise, yet in-depth!!!
Comment: I believe Hayden hits all the major concepts well. Without dulling the issues with unecessary rhetoric! His analogies make the theory parts work well together. "B-Luv"
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great book!!!
Comment: This book was absolutely the best I've read in a while. It is down to earth and simple to understand. Matt Hayden did an excellent job of making this book readable to dummies and techies alike.
You can't go too far in technology these days without at least a casual understanding of data communications over local- and wide-area networks (LANs and WANs). Sams Teach Yourself Networking in 24 Hours will clue you up on the seven-layer Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) networking abstraction and other key facts and concepts related to communication among computers. This is the sort of book you sit down and read, perhaps doodling some sketches to the side, rather than use as a guide for experiments performed on a live computer. As such, it's a good starting point as you prepare for a general networking test, such as Microsoft's Networking Essentials exam. Some readers may find author Matt Hayden's approach a bit of a scattershot. He introduces, for example, some of the details of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and IP sub-netting before he explains network topologies. He also touches on technologies such as hard drive storage, which are not at all central to networking. But despite the padding and the sometimes-strange organisational decisions, Hayden has done a fine job of communicating the critical facts and concepts about networking in an implementation-independent way. Though he writes about the relative merits of networks built with NetWare, Windows, Unix, and Linux, he doesn't muddy the water with click-this, choose-that instructions. Topics covered: The essentials of computer networking, explained for people who have never studied the subject before. Design and implementation issues are treated generically, and the author makes high-level comparisons among NetWare, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Unix, and Linux. --David Wall
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