One of the biggest misconceptions of all time in networking is the use of a traceroute to determine that your communication with a server has high latency. On windows, traceroute is the same command as tracert. Many people beleive that when they see high latency such as 250ms+ in a single hop of a trace-route that it means that that device in the transit path is responsible for the degraded network performance when in fact it could not be more further from the truth. First lets look at how...

Finally a "How to Subnet" blog that is easy to understand with real life scenarios. This blog is going to focus on the primary objective which is to TEACH you how to subnet the quickest and easiest way possible and even take it a step further by showing you real life examples. First off, to understand any solution even if the solution is provided by someone else you must first understand the whole problem. If i just gave you a number, lets say the number 22. How did...

This is one of the biggest questions a CCNA candidate will ask when building a Cisco Lab. This blog will contain two separate budgets for building your own personal CCNA/CCNP Lab. The first budget being $600 dollars and the second budget being $1,500 dollars. Many CCNA candidates get too antsy and jump on eBay and start buying all the cool cheap stuff they see before realizing what they're buying is not a good investment. When building a Cisco Lab you must look at it as an investment into your...