Comprehensive Free CCNA Course Introduction: Networking Basics Explained

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how do I do that well it's simple right I clicked shoot and the computer shut and that's what

happened but hold on a second though I'm playing online and the guy I shot isn't just in the game he's actually playing a

game somewhere far away from me how did my bullet get all the way to him actually come here with me real quick

okay so that bullet has to fly over this Ethernet cable all the way down here come on let's go down here you notice my

wall jack here what let's go it goes into my idea to my network stuff here in my rack come through my walls to my

switch to my router and firewall then to my modem where does that go come on well it was my 1885 robots and then okay the

Internet you probably saw that coming right like duh Chuck we play online on the internet when we play call of duty

with other people but what happens after that when I fire that bullet where else does it go I've already shown you how it

goes through your entire network this is what you have right now if you're playing call of duty online this is your

local area network but what happens when we go outside your home to the van or the wide area network let's see and the

internet will just be more routers just someone else's routers hip-hopping across great distances and that's all

the internet really is just a bunch of routers connected but of course it's not just routers you'll have switches here

firewalls just all kinds of stuff in all these different networks but the cool thing is is that in the blink of an eye

as fast as you could fire a bullet in Call of Duty that's how fast things are going across all these routers until

finally your bullet flies all the way to the call of duty servers but hold on not finally not yet because your bullet has

intended to call of duty but now call duty has to send your bullet to the guy who's about to get a shot so again we go

back up to the internet BAM back to the router and this could be another path hopping from router to router to router

until it finally arrives at my brother's house because he is the one I shot and it will hit his modem his router his

switch travel through his Ethernet cable to is ps4 and he gets shot crap now why did I show you this why why

would I show you how a bullet can travel across the Internet well I did it as a test what I'm hoping

is if you saw this you would go wow I want to know more about how that works I want to do something like that if that

was you this course is for you the CCNA is for you because what I just showed you is what you'll be learning in the

CCNA networking how networks work now if you look at this the networking we have now is pretty complex but the goal is

the same as it was 20 30 40 years ago I want my computer to talk to another computer I want to share data with that

computer I want to hang out that's that's all we want to do and that's how networks came about it was one computer

saying hey I have all this data I want to share with another computer and I can't do that right now without a lot of

effort so you know what let's figure out a way to connect ourselves and that's where networking was born we can still

do this by the way you can use an Ethernet crossover cable just to connect two computers together but mark he

wanted to talk to mark over here was left out in the cold oh hi mark so income switches and a switch will allow

us to connect more than one computer together doesn't have to be a computer can be a printer by the way just so you

know I'm glossing over this there's a lot more involved broadcast domains MAC addresses VLANs all kinds of stuff with

switching so just know this is just the tip of the iceberg but if you like this you'll like the other stuff too

now this is a network and a switch facilitates that all these computers are connected together their internet work

together and they are having a blast talking to each other playing games whatever now a switch can only handle so

much before there are too many computers talking too many things talking a lot once and he's like I can't I can't do

this so what do we do well we get another switch easy enough right so easy and we connect more computers and they

have a blast or having a good time yes and yes the more computers I draw the O'War stay get you probably can even

tell their computers anymore well I should probably label my switches right and let's just call them switches so you

know what's going on now what we have here is essentially two networks let's call this network one and network - we

got a problem though what if Bob over here wants to play a game with mark but they're not connected together how do we

solve that problem well that's where routers come in routers I'm not gonna draw one I'm just gonna bring

a router will help these two networks talk that's what routers do they help network to talk to each other so we

connect our switch up to our router bam bam and a high level view extremely high level view of how this one might work is

Bob's like hey I want to talk to mark so he says mark are you here and everyone's like no Mark's not here so Bob's like

huh well maybe he's over here so he goes to the router says hey router is Mark anywhere do you know about mark and the

routers like yeah I think I might know where he is BAM hey Mark is over here and now mark and Bob can talk to each

other so where does the internet come in well this might be just one section of the Internet so put them down here and

we might have another router with another situation and by situation I mean another switch with a bunch of

computers who just want to hang out with people and talk and play games and we connect these two routers together and

the Internet is just this times a thousand now again I've got to say this if you were to pop the hood on the

internet and look inside it's pretty complex like there's a lot of stuff going on so keep in mind what I'm saying

here is very high-level but that should be exciting to you like wow I can't wait to learn more about how all this works

and we'll definitely cover that okay so we looked at our switch and we looked at a router what about this guy

what's a firewall doing well simply he's protecting you he's protecting your network now as you may know there are

some bad people out there some bad dudes that want to attack your network that want to steal your information these

hackers are constantly trying to find ways to steal your stuff and while they'll try to get into your network a

good firewall will keep them out now again with networking routers and switches we want to connect people

connect computers connect devices smartphones and smart lights and all kinds of stuff and that's a normally

good but then there's bad things and that's where a firewall comes in a firewalls job is to block anything that

shouldn't come through or go out and only allow the good stuff now I'm hoping at this point some of you are probably

going well Chuck I don't connect anything to a switch in my house there's no cables anywhere what are you talking

about well you're right for the most part most of things we use in our networks have no

cables that's why part of the CCNA you'll learn about Wireless but where does it come in well here's how you

would do it let's take Cameron's network for example I know that he has what's called a wireless access point often

referred to as a whap and this device is designed to I cast the network over airwaves

airwaves at your phone can connect to now again many of you and your home network probably have one device that

has a access point modem firewall router and switch and one device which is pretty amazing which might cause you to

wonder well why does Chuck and his brother have separate devices for all these functions well first of all we're

geeks a second we do that because we are network engineers and this is what you'll see when you walk into a company

because a company they won't have one device that does all this companies will typically have a lot more people a lot

more things on their networks still need bigger switches bigger firewalls bigger routers more access points so they just

need more and they need more features if you're curious about what I have in my home networking what my brother has I've

got links below now again this will be a free CCNA course CCNA being the cisco certified network associate it is one of

them probably the main IT certification you'll want to get on your path to becoming a network engineer what's a

network engineer well what I just showed you the whole Call of Duty thing bullets floating through space and go and

getting to my brother across the internet a network engineer makes all that stuff work they design things like

that they make sure those things stay up that's their job and the CCNA will begin to teach you about those technologies

understand them build them how they work and we looked at a few of those devices right now switches routers firewalls

wireless access points will later look at network controllers and we're servers coming to play when we saw the Call of

Duty server right but will look a bit deeper into well really what is a server and how does that affect our networks so

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help leave a comment below if you have any questions about this it can be about hey

how long is it gonna take to study for the CCNA will it help me get a job is this even worth it

I mean I've explored that I I had the CCNA I got it to become a network engineer it served me pretty well well

guys that's all I got I am stoked like legit excited to start this course I can honestly say the CCNA changed my life I

know has changed many people's lives I've talked to it's one of those certifications that when I put on my

resume it did open doors for me to become a network engineer so anyways get your coffee ready it'll be lots of

coffee in this course we're gonna study we're gonna lab we're gonna practice and we're gonna get certified I'll catch you

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