are already houses welcome back in in this video what I want to do is I wanna sir talking about the basics network hardware now whenever you're first starting out you can get pretty overwhelming understanding the difference between a modem routers switches servers all of these different pieces that you need even for a simple home network soul what I want to do like I said is I'm gonna go through each device piece by piece I'm gonna break down and explain exactly what it does in why you need it in your network now I actually was gon make these videos like okay this is a video about modems made it monee idid out a modem on modem but instead I'm like this is pretty confusing to so but I'm gonna do is I'm gonna bill or a really really simple home network probably the one that you have in your house if you just you know
have like a plan where you watch TV and you know have basic internet some gonna build a very simple home network and then you guys can see the pieces and how they fit in to the big picture a little bit better so this Cloudera here first for I don't know when people started calling the internet cloud but whenever someone says like any time they say were cloudy just means internet so don't let a computer I know why they did that's kinda annoying actually many waysthis blue cloud is just your Internet Service Provider mine is actually time-warner so you build your home network in then you send it out to you know the telephone wire the satellite whoever you have that is essentially representing the clout what network devices they have we don't know so we discovered the clout so everything out is actually the hard we're in your home alright simple enough now this video is about this device rehear a modem soul the first wire that comes from the telephone line outside to your house talks directly in to the modem now once it's in the modem I'm just throw everything out here goes to your router actually let's use this one she's a wireless router an and what devices doing I got all these cool graphics offer this are website so my comp you might as well make a little a bunch a low-key tiger and re: so
let's say that we have iMac lets you and I'll say Gary here on my cell phone and and let's use a laptop are so I just moved into my new apartment and the first thing that I wanna do is I wanna get some internet so I called my cable company Mika Kenny sense dude over to took up all my computers you know I need to get on the internet so they do he comes over and he searched tinkering around cell phone pullout from what he's doing who knows but he ends up taking a cable from the telephone poll and running it inside my house so then believe it or not he gets a call from his boss the in this huge fight in he just quit he's like you know at this job she later some looking down it wire all my devices still are connected to the Internet McKay dude you can't receive right now in the middle the job music you know a Bucky
how he knows my name on it now probably know that from far said Bucky figure it out yourself so Mike are crap uncanny Elise commitment he's a kid its easy I have to do is he need to buy a modem any need to buy router take this cable that has the internet right now and plug in your modem and then from there take the ethernet cable plug into your router
and then all your devices can connect to it so some can be wired others like your phone can be Wireless and that's how it works Mike arm alright that sounds pretty easy well she later to look with new job art so now we have to figure out how the heck this actually works what type of equipment by and all that fun stuff so the first thing I do is a star rating up
on modems now I learned that okay whenever you have a home network change my color here are blue nice art so whenever you have your own home network I can see visually that has to pass through a modem to get to the Internet how to say internet soul we can see visually that a modem is a device that connects your network to the Internet that's what it is now ice are reading online in technically I learn what this does is it converts digital signals from your router
to analog signals that can be set over copper wires are sure it it down digital to analog so the bra overview of a modem if you only remember one thing is it a device that connects your network your home network to the Internet and technically behind the scenes what does is a converge digital signals from your router or any device that goes into it to analog signals in other words a signal that can be sent over copper wire in you know into the clouds soul I'm like okay that sounds pretty easy a certain looking online for modems in turns out there's like I thousand to choose from what one do I pick for the first thing I'm gonna do is this before you even go on Newegg or Amazon or anything like that go to your eyes peas website I have time warner but every you know I S B has 'em and starts looking for the page that says these are the modems to have been approved to use with our service so different internet service providers only allow
specific self modems in these are all the ones that I can choose from so again this is the manufacture this is just a model number this is the speed will talk about in a second but basically you just can't pick any modem online the need to be approved now another thing is that how she would I have art so I have the ultimate plan but in different areas they have
arm you know faster than this I can only get fifty megabytes per second no matter what so that means if I choose a modem you know if I just buy the most expensive one that can and you know handle 300 megabytes per second is it really worth it because sure my modem is you know Osman can handle all that speed but if my internet maxes out at fifty
then you know what's the point so you always want to buy a modem that either matches or exceeds because if you you know decide to upgrade your internet plan later on then you can always you know bump it up so again make sure that is compatible with your internet service provider now so make sure that the speed is at least that I love your internet plan so we say okay we narrowed down quite a bit now there's some other couple technical things and let me pull up a
clean now to be honest whenever you're buying a modem for the very first time that's probably all you need to know just look at the reviews and make sure they choose from from list and is going to be compatible with your Internet Service Providers over if you wanna know a little bit more about him how explain this now the standards that modems used mean K it's called doc like you're right I'm on my rating heart talk sis so like I said these are just the rules for communication
for modems and every year why don't wanna see every year but every so often they come out with a updated version so one point there's actually a bunch of different ones 1.0 X 2.00 most moms are 3.00 right now and I'm sure in the future that this will get newer and newer as modems get faster and faster we always on get the latest version and also this isn't just for best performance but they're also backwards compatible so if you're like okay I know I have device that works with you know DOCSIS 2.0 modems if you get 3.0 it's gonna work as well since all these are backwards compatible
so again get the latest version make sure that you have enough most updated technology another Ching that you're gonna see are two channels and most modems why don't see most I didn't do a study really thing but a lot of the ones I look at our four by four or 8 by four and again these are channels now for summer in this means downstream whenever you're downloading something and the second number means upstream so the one that i'm gonna be shown you guys in the future match and in you know if I told you this but in the future I'm actually gonna be filming meesh arm setting up an entire home network and you know talking i sry had to do a hands-on 21 I'm gonna musing is a four by four if you have a huge family that's on the internet all time you might want to look into getting an eight by four but yeah either way there you go in just one other little sino this is a really a problem as long as you're choosing one of the modems from I'll
list on their website but make sure you get the right kind for example there are cable modems if you are you know
if you have a cable internet there's also like DSL modems so make sure that you know if you have like time warner cable that you don't buy DSL modem but like I said this is pretty obvious stuff his eyes you choose one from their list then you should be called some that's the basics %uh modems again if you wanna look at this one last time what they are are pretty much the vices that connect your network to the Internet all the rest is are you know fun little detail so there you go thanks for watching see next time