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Virtualization, the innovation that has cut costs across the board for both business and the hobbyists home lab. Buying parts to build one box that is capable of setting up and managing a whole network made up of firewalls and servers while being able to manage the resources of the host. The home lab no…

IPS (intrusion Prevention System) works along side of IDS (intrusion Detection System). I found this to be particularly interesting in the way the two performed. Initially, my thoughts were that you keep working on your PC and then a notification pops up stating the system has detected malware. this of course sends you into a…

DNS (Domain Name Service) makes it easier for you to remember what you’re looking for on the internet. If you’re unfamiliar with what DNS is and how it works there is a great example that I will continue to lay out for you! Pick up your phone and without turning it on, name a person…

Windows 10 is done, time to let it go, free yourself and upgrade to Windows 11 already if you’re not. I’d end the post here but there wouldn’t be any content to support anything I’ve experienced or have to say. Since Steve Balmer stood up and said, “We will all take whatever we give them…

This week the decision was made to tear down the home network and rebuild it to include a game hosting network. Knowing that a TCP/IP protocol would be utilized and the Gateway is already utilizing IPv6, both networks will utilize IPv4. Since my bandwidth is 1000Mbps/1000Mbps, I’ve given my home network an allocation of 100Mbps…

Backup your important files. hold-shift and restart your PC, do not let go of shift. when the blue screen appears, you can let go of shift. select “troubleshoot” Select “reset PC” Microsoft makes resetting your PC very easy, but not a lot of people know about the holding shift feature for admins. I’ve found that…

This week was interesting and a great review. Reading and looking around my house to identify what was being discussed light up a few light bulbs. To start off there has always been a LAN in my life that has been connected to a WAN, but I never thought to think about everything that was…

A quick bunch of tools that are now in my “tool box” to help with figuring out what might be wrong with a network. Seems like a few of these tools I already knew about and look forward to playing around with for sure.

Week 3 Posting – Networking  Someone asked me to build a webpage on what I have done from my A+ Class and so I put together this page. How To: Setup a Garage LAN (tekrp.com) As I was building the page, the decision was made to just stream the activity and see what people might…