TS
Aug 5, 2019
This was a very fun course! I really enjoyed the style and pace of the information given. A lot of technical information was given while the course made it easy to take in and comprehend the material!
WW
Nov 8, 2020
Great overview of the technical aspects of networking that, once again, started from the very "I know nothing basics" and moved to more advanced topics at a rate that this beginner could keep up with.
By Carlos M
•Oct 12, 2023
Very technical course. Take it with patience and dont try to rush trough the material...very well explained!
By Alexander S
•Oct 14, 2023
This Course is so informative and very well instructed. Thumbs up %100 !
By Mr M
•Oct 13, 2023
Great information and teaching to help Spark my IT career
By Zahra R
•Oct 16, 2023
That was an informative course,I've learnt a lot.Thanks
By James F
•Nov 2, 2019
This course worked my brain, which is good!
By Pavan K G
•Oct 21, 2018
Really superb course for networking basics!
By Brantley W B
•Jun 21, 2023
It was challenging but I really enjoyed it
By Rexy N
•Oct 14, 2023
nice explanation about ip4 and ip6
By Steven P
•Oct 17, 2023
Challenging! But learned a lot!
By Kaushik R
•Oct 16, 2023
lots of info cramped
By Carlos P
•Oct 11, 2023
very well explained
By jahangir k
•Oct 11, 2023
really informative
By JM M
•Oct 16, 2023
Difficult. whew!
By Kamal Z
•Oct 15, 2023
Really gratefull
By KEVIN G
•Oct 17, 2023
exceptional
By Wendy M L
•Oct 17, 2023
AWESOME!
By Junaid A
•Oct 12, 2023
awesome
By Eman G A
•Oct 17, 2023
great
By THELMO F J
•Oct 11, 2023
Great
By A A K
•Oct 14, 2023
best
By Ovia Y N S
•Oct 14, 2023
good
By Gayatri D
•Oct 14, 2023
good
By James K
•Feb 13, 2023
Three big points with regard to the Networking course.
1. Victor Escobedo, the instructor, is great. He's a huge step-up from the first course (Tech Support Fundamentals) and its carousel of people constantly shuffling in-and-out, and he's ahead of the instructors you're given in the later courses, too. He might present as being a little corny and -- at times -- he's a little robotic reading off of the teleprompter but he's got a great way of speaking to help you follow his line of thoughts. Others don't seem like they actually... care about your success? I know it's weird to think that a dude reading off a teleprompter could care, but it's kind of a "you have to experience it to get what I mean".
2. This course and the curriculum are an absolutely silly jump in how difficult the material can be to parse and make sense of. If you breezed through Course 1, this one might stop you dead in your tracks when it tries to teach you something like Subnetting (which was the biggest pain point for me, personally). There are also points where the curriculum doesn't really efficiently explain a point, which is kind of a good thing, because it encourages you to seek out other resources. A lot of what I began learning in this course, I'd finish learning on YouTube or in some documentation on Wikipedia.
3. For some reason, this course is going to tell you the TCP/IP 5-layer model is the standard. It's going to speak in terms of the TCP/IP 5-layer model a lot. You need to learn the OSI model instead. No one uses TCP/IP, and the Supplemental Reading they offer actually tells you that it's being phased out in favor of the OSI.
For me, I had to use a lot of outside resources to help me understand this and a lot of the time, there aren't practical examples you can follow to better grasp what it is a lot of these things are. As in, you'll learn *how* to determine how many subnets any given IPv4 address may have, but you'll never actually open a program on your computer and work with subnets hands-on. Whereas in course 3 (Operating Systems and you) you're constantly encouraged to follow along with the instructor's work.
All in all, I think this is an essential course for everyone. It's important to understand how all this network stuff works in an increasingly digital age where we're sending info through the air. Heavily recommend.
By Troy R
•Jun 2, 2022
The course itself is excellent. I'm impressed by how much information can be easily explained in a compact format. It truly is a 5 star course.
That said, the tech support being offered is Amazon level incompetence, and Coursera should be embarrassed. The IPv6 compression exam at the end of this course has a serious technical bug. I reached out to Coursera's technical support team, two members of which -- Evelyn and Jet, specifically -- ignored what I wrote, declared the problem to be my fault, and gave me instructons on how to complete the exam because they clearly thought I was a moron. The problem was an imposed character limitation of 20 characters in the answer space due to copy/paste inexplicably adding extra invisible characters in the answer space. The other workaround to ensure a correct answer requires entering something screwball that should not have worked whenever a correct answer was checked as wrong. I did my research to get past that and solved it in under 24 hours, whereas your support team have been sitting on this for at least 6 months, as reported in the forums Evelyn and Jet so "helpfully" suggested I check. After being on the receiving end of a shining example of how not to offer IT support according to your own certification course, I'll let your crack team figure it out on their own. Rest assured, I won't bother to reach out to them again.
By Steven B
•Oct 12, 2023
Exposure to new vocabulary, etc. is excellent. In the fog of learning I picked up much terrific minutiae. Yet somehow with the minutiae I need a better understanding of the purpose of ip addressing, network stack model work, reside and interplay. Better illustration of the handoff between layers and when they handoff and why. Possibly my reviewing the material will prove to strengthen my grasp of this and other but I'll probably have to go to other resources. Through the networking I have felt as though I was lacking some fundamental understanding even as I was learning. I do not feel confident. Thinking about what I've learned is a blur. I guess future repetition and re-reading will help. Hopefully, the completion of the certificate will be valued by employers.