This is for fun man! I don't need a CCNA for work but my PMI courses were canceled due to low enrollment so I have to do something for the next 6 months.

Plus, I'd rather showoff a CCNA cert# than the A+ and Net+.... actually im pretty sure I let those lapse....

 

I can tell you having Cisco and Juniper under your belt will get you alot of jobs, but ya CCNA does help alot more over A+

I get job offer couple times of month when I am already working full time becuase of having Cisco and Juniper The places that look for that are like Yahoo and Google. They run Cisco with Juniper firewalls.

 

here is a job example:

http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/u...iew/index.html

 

I am done with the home network, its just basic...

1)Sonicwall 2040pro
2)dell 24 port 10/100/1000 managed switch
3)Shuttle box with win serv 2003
4)Raid box 8 drives 12+tb raid 6

That supports 3 gaming machines, 2 tivo, one Media center, 3 gaming laptops, 2 linux laptops, and 1 non gaming "guest" machine.

 

100000000000000000000000000000000000% agree here. Got a buddie that got his CCNE(CCNA?) the big one that is top level. Anyways he HATES the work now, and has only been doing it for 10 years. Cant stand the stress and the long hours even thou he is only really working 20-30 hours a week if you figure things out, but its normaly all at once non stop with no break.

 

That also requires BA/BS AND 5 years serious experience reqd.

certs are on top of..


Staring at a putty session hammering away for hours on end is fun at the beginning when you actually start making things work for the first time... Multiply that by a decade and it can get old..


!! BUT.. There are folks that can do it and love it.. I'm not one of them..

 

trust me... its not an issue

 

Home network used to support a lot more than it does now that the roommate moved it. Now its Two TV's, two BluRay Players, 360, NAS, and two computers.

All the wireless devices are Running off an airport extreme and two airport expresses that act as audio endpoints for streaming and as wifi repeaters.

more than half the drops i pulled get no usage at all now... whatever, i could always take two of the cat6 and convert em into HDMI and do a distribution unit in the closet... but why bother?

 

Not trying to start an argument with you, but please check your facts before stating them. I don't need to run wire for AT&T to know what's true or false. AT&T doesn't have 100% fiber to the house in any residence in the bay area. Despite the fact that they've been rolling out fiber in the peninsula to expand their Uverse service, that doesn't mean houses in the area are getting full fiber to the house. They're still using plain old copper from the curb to get their service over.

If you're talking about Sacramento, then that's a whole different story. Many residences in Sac have been getting FTTH/FTTC for around 10 years already, so I wouldn't be surprise if they've switched to full fiber by now. Although, I'm still highly doubtful about that because fiber isn't the most cost effective solution for home networking.

 

The thing is I do know what I'm talking about. and I know many new condo's running %100 fiber to the home. and houses that are 5 or so years running on it.

 

^ I'm not saying I don't believe you, but I find it very odd that AT&T is using fiber all the way through. Two of my brothers bought brand new houses in Daly City and in San Bruno (Skyline College), yet both of their houses are running copper from the curb. If you could provide some pictures of the said setup then perhaps I could inform the professors at my Network Engineering program about how they're spreading outdated information to their students.

Edit: I had former classmates who ran wire for AT&T Uverse via contractor, and they shared the same stories with actual AT&T Prem Techs that I've chatted with. None of them claimed that AT&T is running full fiber to the house. It has always been copper from the curb. Perhaps they were just making that up as well.

 

I have 100% winning to the house, so you all can suck it

 

Like I said not all houses will have fiber to the house I would say less then %5 are fiber to the home. AT&T will pay and supply the wires to the curb. It's up to the contractor or home owner to take the fiber optic into the house/condo. and $200 feet of copper does nothing to servicwe or signal quality. Take bay meadows apartments in san mateo. the builter spent the moner and ran the fiber in the building for the people that rent/ own them. I guess when you pay $2000 for a 1 bed u get what you pay for. But maybe I don't know what I'm talking about and could be making it up also....

 

I wish I could have those caps. I'm stuck with Hughes Net where I pay $120 a month for garbage. 1.5 D and 0.5 U with a 1200-1500ms ping. Also I only get 450 mb a day. So I can only download and watch videos from 11pm - 4am.

In July my contract expires so I'm switching to AirCloud but I'll still be limited to 100 gb/month. At least I won't have these ridiculous ping times that I have now.

I miss comcast.

 

Not sure what this is going to prove, but here you go. Fiber to my house. Suck it.