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It is WAY overpriced and as stated previously by Teresa of Ausin, TX, customer service is terrible!!! I also attempted to get the answers to the review questions at the end of each chapter: a NIGHTMARE!! The saying that "you get what you pay for" does NOT apply!!! Save yourself a lot of money and even more time & buy something else!!! Don't buy from this publisher! Buyer Beware!!! I cannot recommend AGAINST buying this book any more! If I could've given it a lower rating I would have!!! Also, notice that the few reviews that gave it high marks are several years old, so they're not talking about this edition!
2 Poorly Edited
There are review questions at the end of each chapter. I have progressed through Chapter 11 to date. Every single review section contains questions that cannot be answered by information in the text. Replies from the publisher revealed that needed information was deleted in the editing process. Their suggestion was to buy the next edition. (Customer service at its best, eh?) My suggestion is to skip this book altogether and find a better edited Networking Fundamentals guide.
3 Not accurate
I'm studying for the Network+ Exam. The book has a lot of inaccuracies. Careful if you are using this box as a study guide. I recommend Exam Cram 2 - much better. About 1 in every 15 review questions is either mis-guiding, improperly stated or just plain wrong. I give it about 2.5 stars.
4 USING THIS BOOK FOR CERTIFICATION PROGRAM AT SCHOOL
I AM CURRENTLY USING THIS BOOK FOR ONE OF MY CLASSES AT A SCHOOL THAT SPECIALIZES IN PC REPAIR AND NETWORKING. I AM VERY PLEASED WITH THIS BOOK. IT OFFERS ALOT OF INFORMATION, BASICIALLY WHAT YOU NEED TO GET A GOOD UNDERSTANDING OF NETWORKING, AND IT IS EASY TO UNDERSTAND -- NOT OVERLY TECHNICAL. MY INSTRUCTOR IS PREPARING US FOR THE NETWORK+ EXAM AND FEELS THAT THIS BOOK IS A GREAT TOOL. IT COVERS EVERYTHING, OSI MODELS, TOPOLOGY, CABLING MEDIUM, ROUTERS, SWITCHES ETC AND HOW THEY ALL INTERACT TO MAKE THE PROCESS HAPPEN. THIS BOOK ALSO GIVES YOU HANDS ON PROJECTS AND CASE STUDIES THAT ARE VERY HELPFUL IN MAKING YOU THINK ABOUT HOW TO APPLY WHAT YOU HAVE JUST LEARNED. I HAVE READ SOME OTHER NETWORKING BOOKS THAT JUST SCRATCH THE SURFACE, THIS ONE COVERS IT ALL AND IN DEPTH.
5 O.K. for beginners...
I used this book in a Networking Essentials class that I took at a local college. This book is good for someone who has little experience and wants to learn about the various aspects of networking, or maybe for someone who has experience and needs a refresher on broad based concepts. But despite the book's title, Network+ Guide to Networks should NOT be your one-stop shop if you are looking to pass the Network+ exam. CompTia's Network+ test is rather detail oriented, and Network+ Guide to Networks is just too broad in scope to be effective (I passed with an 875 out of 900, but I had prior networking experience and I used some third-party software to help me prepare). It almost seems like they started this book with networking 'essentials' in mind, but then stamped Network+ on the cover at the last minute in order to generate some additional sales. All-in-all, not a bad book, but it's just not up to task for the demands of the Network+ exam.
6 Excellent
I read this book cover-to-cover and passed with 95%. It does a great job of covering the details of networking and TCP/IP. It has more information than what you'll need for Network+, but that just means it does a great job covering everything. I've only got two more exams to go before MCSE 2000, and I'm certain the networking foundation has helped out a lot.
7 Good format, easy to follow.
Tamara did an excellent job is bringing the technical explanation of networks down to a level. It was easy to follow, and a plus to anyone's technical library. Thank you for presenting a very technical subject in an informative manner.
8 Clear and Concise
I found this book extremely helpful. It is a well-organized, clear and concise textbook that is, in my opinion, an excellent educational tool.
9 Partial Review First 7 Chapters
I am puzzled by the other negative reviews because I have already read the first 7 chapters (there are 16 Chapters total) and I find this book (Network+: Guide to Networks by Tamara Dean) extremely well written and easy to understand. I have found explanations of things in this book that other authors were unable to explain because they probably did not understand it themselves! I have reviewed a lot of computer books and I am impressed with this one. As far as inaccuracies, since I don't know beans about networking, I would not know if the author has made mistakes in the book or not. I just assume she is accurate.
One reviewer is very critical about this book and said the author presents the different types of WAN transmissions as technological equivalents. However, the author says on p. 270: "The WAN transmissions discussed in this section differ in terms of speed, reliability, cost, distance covered, and security. So I don't understand the criticism.
I have never seen a more clear description of the differences between things like ISDN, DSL, etc. as presented in this book. All the techies I talk to can't seem to explain the difference.
I will add more to this review when I finish chapters 8 thru 16.
10 Mr. Jones was TO GENEROUS
After spending eight weeks in a Diablo Valley Junior College class, and mastering every stinking detail of this dreadful book, I failed Network+ today. There were many, many things on the test that I have never heard of. Including: NAT, several arcane TCP/IP subprotocalls, h
11 Inaccurate, incorrect and misleading.
I cannot believe this book made it to print. I'm an instructor of Network fundamentals at a technical college in Silicon Valley and my school has chosen this book as the primary text for my next class. I will not teach from this book and I'm seriously thinking of suggesting all 31 of my students return their book and pick up Radia Perlman's "Interconnections" instead. The book is littered with technically incorrect and misleading information. For example, in Chapter 6, in a section called, "WAN Transmission Methods" she presents The PSTN, ISDN, xDSL, Cable, T-Carrier, FDDI, X.25, Frame-relay, ATM & SONET as technological equivalents. She makes no real distinction between Physical and Data link layers and their are several errors in the explanations of each technology. For example, in the Sonet section, she says of an OC-48, "Defined but not realistic". The author and whomever was responsible for the technical review must have been oblivious to the fact that Systems operating at OC-48 speeds and higher are commonplace in Service provider networks. My only use for this book would be to teach my students not to believe everything they read.
12 Excellent, informative, tremendous resource
Ms. Dean has done an outstanding job of presenting current technology in a manner that is easy for students to grasp. This textbook was a great asset to the course; comprehensive, factual, technically sound. Highly recommended to anyone in the networking arena.
13 My thoughts
This was a textbook for a master's level course on "Intro to PC Networking". The book covers UNIX/NT/Netware and breaks up hardware and media into very logical parts and has some very comprehensive explanations of key terms BUT some of the remarks about specific operating systems are dead wrong! This book just came out (2000) and they should know NT 4.0 by now, but the technical proofreader obviously didn't do his job. I can't recommend it because of the incorrect information.