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Network card troubleshooting

Network card troubleshooting

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Network card troubleshooting

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- If you want an individual computer, or as we often say, host in the networking world, to connect to your network, it's going to need some kind of network card. So what I got right here is a very old school network interface card, or NIC. So it's actually a card, and you would snap it into your computer. And if you look here on the end, it's got a little RJ45 connector. And this is how we connected to our networks. We had to actually snap this in, came with a driver's disk. We've done that stuff before. Now, network cards are almost never simple cards anymore. They're almost always built in. For example, I got this motherboard here, and it's got a built-in network card. Even this laptop here has got a built-in NIC. So let's get some terminology down right now. Even though nobody uses a card anymore, we still call it a network card or a NIC. Guess it's just an interface now, but we use the term network card or NIC. Now, if you're going to be installing a NIC, odds are good it's going…

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