Customer Reviews

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Networking

It's hard to figure out what exactly this book was designed to do. It gives almost no helpful information in the actual preparation of a network, but instead focuses (inasmuch as it ever does come to a point) on the nature of networks. Maybe this is good stuff for those facing a written exam in a theoretical course in college, but for those of us in the real world, there's simply not much here. Don't expect that this book will actually help you set up a network.

Apparently this a "Complete Idiot's Guide" not because it explains how to set up a network in simple terms, but because you feel like a complete idiot after buying it.

If you had never heard of a network before it might be useful, but even as a relative beginner I found this book to be _way_ too simpleminded.

I like information to be presented in a non-technical, accessible way. This book manages to be irritatingly simplistic and unclear at the same time. Quite a feat.

I was particularly disappointed because I've liked other books in the same series. I really doubt that anyone with any experience (even just surfing the internet) would find this book very useful.

I hope the authors put a lot of effort into improving the next version, if there is another.

Ok - I did get some new information, but i am ultimately disappointed.

Please only get it, if you are a complete beginner. I thought that i was a complete network newbie, but I knew most of the information already....