Networking Online training courses?

[Copier Mechanic]

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I worked for Lanier Dealer. Lanier became a wholly owned subsidiary of Ricoh. The company I worked for was General Office Machine Company. I started with them in 1972 when I got off active duty with the Army. At that time I was working on Stenocord, Gary, Nyematic and Teletran dictation systems, all of which were distributed by Lanier Distributing which later became Lanie Worldwide. On the copier side I worked on Olivetti, Apeco, SCM, Saxon, Sharp, Old Town and 3M thermal. When plain paper machine came on the market, other than brand X(Xerox), Apeco was rebranding Royal. A dealer out of Fresno came up with a roll fed option for the RBC 1 and my boss asked if I could design an auxiliary tray. I designed and we manufactured a 1000 sheet tray that mounted in an ad on frame that went under the main frame. Since part of our Olivetti copier business was Coinfax, I was then tasked to design a coin-op conversion. After requests from other dealers at NOMDA, I eventually developed a coin-op aux feed option for the Savin 770.

I have also installed and repaired computers, networks and Phone systems.

Wow! Look at you! What an accomplishment you did! 👏......Impressive.

[rthonpm]

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When I became a tech for Ricoh direct, you had to have at least an A+ Cert to be considered, and this was back in 2005. There were other guys on team without it, or any certs, but the service manager saw where things were going in the industry and wanted people with a grounding on the IT side going forward. By then, I had been an unofficial IT tech in the corporate print shop where I was a supervisor so it wasn't much of a stretch. The only thing that kind of three me on the exam were the DOS sections since I had been primarily dealing with Windows NT by that time so I hadn't seen a 95 or 98 machine for quite awhile. Had I stayed, they would have paid for additional certs but I moved out of the area with my wife and ended up with a terrible dealership that barely gave health insurance, let alone cert reimbursement.

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[anothertech]

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When I became a tech for Ricoh direct, you had to have at least an A+ Cert to be considered, and this was back in 2005. There were other guys on team without it, or any certs, but the service manager saw where things were going in the industry and wanted people with a grounding on the IT side going forward. By then, I had been an unofficial IT tech in the corporate print shop where I was a supervisor so it wasn't much of a stretch. The only thing that kind of three me on the exam were the DOS sections since I had been primarily dealing with Windows NT by that time so I hadn't seen a 95 or 98 machine for quite awhile. Had I stayed, they would have paid for additional certs but I moved out of the area with my wife and ended up with a terrible dealership that barely gave health insurance, let alone cert reimbursement.

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I was at Ricoh at that time too. They're the ones that paid for my training. They required A+, Net+ and Security+ at the time if we wanted to keep our titles and not get demoted. They have since relaxed the requirements. They realized we were getting over trained and techs were leaving for IT jobs.

[dickierock]

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I can't speak to the other certs, but there's something that you need to know now that you've signed up for an online CCNA course. You're gonna have to buy a lot of equipment. This is needed because you're gonna have to do lab exercises. You'll need at least 2 routers and switches. You'll also need a WLAN controller. And it's best if you have a server. You'll get very little out of the course without it. The good news is that you can pick up used equipment for a fraction of the cost of new.

BTW: rthonpm is the local expert on here. I used to bug the hell out of him. He didn't seem to mind.

My two cents on CCNA, I passed it in 2020. It was difficult but not impossible. Its useful for subnetting or for recognizing different ip addressing set ups.
If its just to help with copier installs, then its overkill. However it will show any prospective employers you have a good grasp of networking and have a good ability to learn more complex material. I don't believe you need the physical equipment. Packet Tracker should be enough. I had all the gear but once I played around with it for a while I moved over to packet tracer and the gear I sold on again once I completed the course.
Jeremy's IT Lab - YouTube . This guy is a brilliant instructor. His videos helped me more than anything else as the official Course Book is written in a form that would melt your brain with boredom. There is no flow whatsoever to the writing style.
Jeremy breaks down the different protocols into easy to follow simplified labs. I recreated his labs in Packet tracer and did them repeatedly until they were very clear in my mind.
I would consider CCNA as a tool to jump into IT fulltime. Best of luck with it anyways.

[Copier Mechanic]

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My two cents on CCNA, I passed it in 2020. It was difficult but not impossible. Its useful for subnetting or for recognizing different ip addressing set ups.
If its just to help with copier installs, then its overkill. However it will show any prospective employers you have a good grasp of networking and have a good ability to learn more complex material. I don't believe you need the physical equipment. Packet Tracker should be enough. I had all the gear but once I played around with it for a while I moved over to packet tracer and the gear I sold on again once I completed the course.
Jeremy's IT Lab - YouTube . This guy is a brilliant instructor. His videos helped me more than anything else as the official Course Book is written in a form that would melt your brain with boredom. There is no flow whatsoever to the writing style.
Jeremy breaks down the different protocols into easy to follow simplified labs. I recreated his labs in Packet tracer and did them repeatedly until they were very clear in my mind.
I would consider CCNA as a tool to jump into IT fulltime. Best of luck with it anyways.

Appreciate the info bro!! I will look into the packet tracer and the YouTube video link you provided. Thanks again!!

[alicewilson]

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Hey people! If you are looking for top-notch networking training online, I have a hot tip for you! Contact Cisco Networking Academy - it's legal! I learned about these courses from a girl I met through the blog, you could try here. I love that we can chat and share such cool stuff! Happy learning and communication!

[BillyCarpenter]

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My two cents on CCNA, I passed it in 2020. It was difficult but not impossible. Its useful for subnetting or for recognizing different ip addressing set ups.
If its just to help with copier installs, then its overkill. However it will show any prospective employers you have a good grasp of networking and have a good ability to learn more complex material. I don't believe you need the physical equipment. Packet Tracker should be enough. I had all the gear but once I played around with it for a while I moved over to packet tracer and the gear I sold on again once I completed the course.
Jeremy's IT Lab - YouTube . This guy is a brilliant instructor. His videos helped me more than anything else as the official Course Book is written in a form that would melt your brain with boredom. There is no flow whatsoever to the writing style.
Jeremy breaks down the different protocols into easy to follow simplified labs. I recreated his labs in Packet tracer and did them repeatedly until they were very clear in my mind.
I would consider CCNA as a tool to jump into IT fulltime. Best of luck with it anyways.

Packet Tracer is great for learning syntax for Cisco switches & routers but it has limitations. As the CCNA course progresses, real equipment is imperative, IMHO. Also, I used Packet Tracer exclusively for about the first 3 months. I felt like I knew some sh!T. You know what? Once I bought real gear, I didn't even know how to access the command line for the switch or router. It was totally different from Packet Tracer. I had to use a program called puTTY to access the equipment. Moreover, I was able to labup more sophisticated setups with real equipment.

It's true that a person will learn IP addressing and subnetting thru CCNA. But that's a tiny fraction of what I learned. Tiny. I also learned how to control how data flows on a network and how to make it flow the direction I want it to flow. Or how network hops (routers) work and how to control the hops for better efficiency.

Or how about Spanning Tree and why it's needed and why you need to turn it off some cases? Port Security? Network Loops?

I'd be here all day talking about the things covered in CCNA. It's a great course, IMO, but in the end, it requires a huge commitment and at my age, I knew this was something that I wouldn't use in my line of work. If I was younger, I would have given serious thought to getting my CCNA and then CCNP.

[BillyCarpenter]

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PS - I think a lot of folks misunderstand managed routers and switches. Most of the people that I talk to are used to a plug and play switch or they understand routers in that they have LAN or WAN.

Managed switches and routers are really dedicated computers. The CCNA course mainly deals with very large networks and these are much different than smaller networks. In a large network, you may have a location is Seattle, Orlando and several other cites all tied together. Getting that to work correctly is a monster of a job and there's a million things that need to happen. Of course, you'll need more than a CCNA before any company would trust you with a network like that. But CCNA is the foundation, at least.

[bsm2]

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