https://andyals.com/tags/basics/Recent content in Basics on Andy AlsHugoen-usAndy AlsSun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://andyals.com/posts/2026/05/networking-the-absolute-basics/Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://andyals.com/posts/2026/05/networking-the-absolute-basics/<p>The world of networking is very complex. There is a lot going on behind the scenes when you use the internet to send and receive data for your web browsing, streaming and playing video games online. Then outside of home networks, when we start talking about business networks, enterprise networks, college campus networks and data centre networks, it gets significantly more complex.</p> <hr> <h2 id="networking-is-complex">Networking is complex</h2> <p>The average punter out in the wild definitely does not have the appreciation for the complexities of getting data from point a to point b around the world. Although they don’t really need to, they just want low ping to shoot people on call of duty or to be able to stream 4k UHD movies without any lag. To that, I say, fair enough.</p>