Network Troubleshooting

WEBVTT Thank you so much for tuning in. I'm your host, Lauren Deal, and I'll be your learner advocate as we go along, asking this guy probably all the questions that you have. In fact, Wes, welcome in. Tell us a little bit about who you are. Absolutely. I've been a technical instructor now for a variety of different courses, CompTIA, Microsoft courses, Microsoft Certified Trainer. I've been a technical instructor for about 15 years now. Some of the things I specialize are in entry level, break fix technician, network communications, as well as cybersecurity. Really looking forward to diving into network troubleshooting and telling you a little bit more about it. Well, I'm excited to learn along with you. I'm curious about what we're going to be learning about. Can you give us an overview? Oh, most definitely. We're going to look at how we can implement a systematic approach to network troubleshooting. We'll introduce you to something known as a network troubleshooting methodology. That'll be very, very important. We'll also look at a variety of different network issues that can happen, whether it's network service issues, cabling issues, physical interface issues, routing issues. There are a ton of things that could potentially pop up. And what we're going to do is we're going to take you through those, give you some examples, and then some solutions that you can utilize to hopefully come to diagnose a problem, right? Or identify, diagnose, and I guess it would be resolve a problem would be the short, short version. But we'll spend some time in network troubleshooting and walk you through that journey. Well, I'm excited to learn along with you. And I'm curious, Wes, I'm kind of new to networking. Who would this course be best for? Oh, it'd be perfect for you for sure. So what we're going to do is we want to kind of demystify some of the concepts around network communications, whether we're talking about fiber optic communications, copper media, we're talking about routers and switches. And what we want to do is we want to kind of present it to you and not kind of, we will present it to you in a way that's easily digestible. Again, taking all the demystifying it and bring it to a way that somebody that is just getting into the industry or even somebody maybe that's in the industry and wants to move over to the networking portion of their job role, this is going to be for you. Well, I'm excited to get started. And I know you are too. So let's not waste any more time and jump into the first episode.