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Summary: Great book for a high price - worth the money
Review: Its expensive - but it's much better than buying 10 books for 20$ and not getting the information
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Summary: Excellent book.
Review: This book is very readable and contain the basic principles you need to understand networks. This book is really well done and deserve to be bought. Some background knowledge of computer networks is needed anyway. The included CD does NOT work on some CD readers (they can't read it) anyway the book worth to be read.
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Summary: Wonderful to me as an IT starter in e-infrastructure
Review: This book serves me well as an IT project trainee with no engineering background. I find this book wonderful as it covers a wide range of IT terms and concepts in a simplified (at least understandable to me) and structured way. Low from the types of wires (like copper wire and glass fibres) and transmission media (such as infrared and laser) and then layer 1 hardware, up the layers IP/TCP, sockets, DNS, technologies of FTP, CGI, Java, and lands on network security. It is not that technical in nature but explains the concepts and how each item works. It really helps me much in conceptual nature. So if you are an IT starter like me and looking for an elementary widely-covered book, I do recommend this for you.
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Summary: Great overview of networking
Review: This is an excellent book for networking introductory. It covers a wide range of topics, providing enough information to give you a good idea and get you excited and interested about that topic. The book also goes indepth about the TCP and UDP protocol, and in my opinion, has a great illustration of how both protocols work. Newer standards and topics such as IPv6 are also discussed in the book.It will not teach you everything about networking, but it will certainly give you enough information to know which specific field you want to explore more into. Great book for beginners who want to get to know the theoretical side of networking.
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Summary: EXPLAINED IN SIMPLE TERMS
Review: This is an excellent book on understanding networking and the internet. I can't praise this book enough. You must have this as a reference.
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Summary: A superb beginning for basic network theory!
Review: This is an excellent starting point for anyone who wants to learn more about the internet, networking and some of the underlying hardware architecture and software theories. A non-technical book, designed to give readers a general understanding. If you're new, unexperienced and feel a little intimidated, don't worry. Mr. Comer will guide you step by step and soon you will become familiar with some of the technologies used today. LAN/WAN? ATM? DNS? Switches? Routers? OC? TCP/IP? ICMP? FTP? SNMP? You will be able to define all of these and know what they are used for. Although remember, theory only! Mid-level networking professionals may gain a little knowledge by skimming through the book, but experience users will probably find this book a bore. This book is catered toward the novice, and it's a good one at that. A nice piece of work.
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Summary: A superb beginning for basic network theory!
Review: This is an excellent starting point for anyone who wants to learn more about the internet, networking and some of the underlying hardware architecture and software theories. A non-technical book, designed to give readers a general understanding. If you're new, unexperienced and feel a little intimidated, don't worry. Mr. Comer will guide you step by step and soon you will become familiar with some of the technologies used today. LAN/WAN? ATM? DNS? Switches? Routers? OC? TCP/IP? ICMP? FTP? SNMP? You will be able to define all of these and know what they are used for. Although remember, theory only! Mid-level networking professionals may gain a little knowledge by skimming through the book, but experience users will probably find this book a bore. This book is catered toward the novice, and it's a good one at that. A nice piece of work.
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Summary: really great for a beginner!!!
Review: This is the best book for a person who wants to gain a little overall (general) knowledge on various concepts of networking. It also lays great foundations without confusing the reader with details..
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Summary: Best intro to networking book I've seen...
Review: This is the best book to read for people who want to start into the world of computer networks, but may not come from a computer science background. If you've got a good background in CS, or are already familiar with computer/math theory, go get Andrew Tanenbaum's 'Computer Networks', as Comers book will probably not hold enough technical details for you. This book does not require much rigorous/mathematical thinking to read through and gives a great introduction to many networking topics. (a quick example of this is how Comer mentions the CRC computing techniques only to a certain, friendly level while Tanenbaum's book jumps right into the explicit details of doing the computations by hand!!!) In his over-all progression from the physical, data transmitting wires of a network to software application's that use networks, Comer covers a good chunk of what networks are and how they work without losing you in detail's involving lot's of 0's and 1's. :) And if after reading this book you're still hungry for more knowledge on what you'll then know to be Computer Networks, then go read Tanenbaum's book.
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Summary: Best intro to networking book I've seen...
Review: This is the best book to read for people who want to start into the world of computer networks, but may not come from a computer science background. If you've got a good background in CS, or are already familiar with computer/math theory, go get Andrew Tanenbaum's 'Computer Networks', as Comers book will probably not hold enough technical details for you. This book does not require much rigorous/mathematical thinking to read through and gives a great introduction to many networking topics. (a quick example of this is how Comer mentions the CRC computing techniques only to a certain, friendly level while Tanenbaum's book jumps right into the explicit details of doing the computations by hand!!!) In his over-all progression from the physical, data transmitting wires of a network to software application's that use networks, Comer covers a good chunk of what networks are and how they work without losing you in detail's involving lot's of 0's and 1's. :) And if after reading this book you're still hungry for more knowledge on what you'll then know to be Computer Networks, then go read Tanenbaum's book.
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