Hands On Windows Networking
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J. Catherine Craft
Hands On Windows Networking
Telecommunications and Networking II’s Week 1 Individual assignment is to complete the instructions found in Chapter 1a (Hands On: A Few Internet Tools) and 1b (Design Exercise: A Small Home Network). This week’s focus has been networking concepts, and the first exercise is designed to familiarize students with a few free network tools at their disposal, and either a comparison of bandwidth on the same connection from two different devices, or a comparison of two separate websites read bandwidth speed from the same device. The second exercise consists of designing and pricing a small home network. This is designed to showcase the hardware necessary to complete a small scale network, and the cost associated with this build.
Hands On: A Few Internet Tools
Internet Connection Speed
When running a network speed test from the zdnet link (ZD Net, 2015) from a wired cable connection, the test resulted in a speed of 9,9267mbps (megabytes per second). The site did not specify whether this was download or upload speed, but I believe it is download speed. My second network test, ran from testmy.net (TestMy Net, 2015), showed my network broadband download speed as 14.5mbps. I cannot account for the difference in speed displayed by these two websites, as I ran the tests one directly following the other. It may be that the “9,9267mbps” result presented by zdnet should actually read “9.9267mbps”, which is a lot closer to the second result. A second hypothesis for the difference in bandwidth speed is the route taken by each test. The network I ran the tests on routes traffic in several different ways, and it is possible that one was much more congested than the other. In the future, I will be wary of websites that test my connection. Most home routers have a feature that will test the network connection speed, and I believe that is more reliable....