02 - Internet Connections - Home Networking 101

Welcome to Home Networking 101 - the ultimate guide for beginners looking to unlock the full potential of their home networks. In this episode, we're going to be discussing all different types of Internet connections, WAN IP's, and some basic Internet troubleshooting.
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Timecodes
00:00 Intro
01:29 Internet Connection Options
04:29 Different Types of Internet Connections
10:17 The ISP's Modem
11:28 Bridge Mode Explained
12:14 WAN IP's Explained
14:52 Speed Testing
16:41 Basic Internet Troubleshooting
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[@CreativeVideoTips]

I love everything about this series. I'm not an IT beginner but your explanations are the best reference I've ever seen.

[@OvalboreTech]

I enjoy watching this series so far, even as an IT Director. Thanks for the well prepared and concise content!

[@KarimMGS]

I am a network amateur trying to understand home networking as a hobby, and to improve my very simple home network. I love that you explain a range of concepts in simple terms with simple analogies without going too deep into details. Keep up the good work and please continue making awesome videos 👏🏽

[@chrisball6177]

Chris, these are a great series of videos so far. They will be my go to place to send family and friends to learn fundamentals. You explain it all in such a easy to understand, lay person way, something I often struggle to do! Keep up the good work and thanks! 🙏

[@RedStarSQD]

We used to do MB/s once we could do more than kilobytes per second. This gave us real world speed performance front and center. Marketing then gave us megabits per second to make everything seem so much faster. Now you have to convert mega bits into mega bytes per second to understand how fast you are going to download your 4.25 GB patch file. For those with gigabit connection that makes you 125 MB/s and me jealous :)

[@ericb893]

I have had all flavors of isp throughout my life, dialup, dsl, cell sevice, wisp, cable, and finally fiber. Fiber is by far the best and is a lot cheaper overall for my needs. It also is the most reliable. Thanks for these videos, they are very informative and love what you do!

[@lwakefield08]

I would like to add Electrical Cooperatives in the U.S. are starting to do FTTH. They are providing fiber internet to the most rural areas of their respective state. It is cheaper for them to accomplish this as they own the poles for which the fiber is being put on. Where as your more traditional ISPs like your telcos and cable companies have to pay for pole attachments for each line and drop ran from those poles. Plus they are able to offset the cost by applying for grants.

[@MikeHarris1984]

The FCC also has a list of all ISPs registered to give service to what address... you type in your address and the FCC will list what ISP's are available to you and what their reported speeds are to your address.. If you find that one ISP isnt availalble that is listed, or not the speeds listed for your address, they will fine the ISP for providing inacurate data... ISPs do that to get bigger government grants because they help the lower income area's and such, when infact, most dont, or only have certain speeds for them.

[@DillonB407]

WISP! When we moved to a more rural area, a WISP was about the only option we had other than HughesNet. I never knew what to actually call it, though. Although we aren't getting quite the speeds we got over our cable internet, we average around 160 Mbps which has been more than sufficient for what we need. There is a slightly higher latency and the connection can be hampered by bad weather, but it's miles ahead of the satellite options we had available.

[@remyazharyyosef1811]

Love your presentation. It's straightforward and concise without giving too much IT jargon but with analogies for non-tech laymen to understand. It's also very useful that, even for myself who has done quite a bit of amateur networking, you do provide extra nuggets of information that I could certainly use. Like for example, I could probably request my ISP to issue me with a static public IP address for my home network since I'm running my own web server. For one thing, it's frustrating to have to get my domain name registrar to constantly have to point my domain name to my public IP address each time my router shut down or reboots.

[@OLDMANDOM42.Dominic]

Your prep can be noticed!! Your audience is very large! Thanks!

[@Brozizz]

nice one Chris please do a video and explain about subnetting am finding it difficult to understand it

[@praveenpg]

Mega bit is also a unit of size. 1 mega byte = 8 mega bit. It’s when we add the time component, it becomes a measurement of bandwidth. So 1000 megabit per second = 125 mega byte per second.

[@JamesHaitch]

Exactly. This video contained nonsensical information.

[@johnnybravo8736]

@@JamesHaitch Respectfully, I disagree. It's titled "Home Networking 101". It's aimed at the beginner/starter level, and as such his explanation is good as it gives a simple differentiation between the two. While Praveen is absolutely correct in what he says, it just complicates things for beginners. There are people who have been working in networking for years that still mix up MB and Mb. That isn't what this video series is about. Once people get a basic understanding, if they are interested they will look into it in more depth and will begin to better understand the additional details that aren't currently being shown

[@JamesHaitch]

@@johnnybravo8736 he needs to speak only facts. 1 byte is 8 bits. That's it. He's talking buckets of incorrect information. Very weird.

[@RBzee112]

​@@JamesHaitchThere's nothing incorrect with what he says here. Maybe incomplete, but not wrong.

[@RoyalEnfielderKtm]

@@johnnybravo8736 or MB and MiB. or DSL, ADSL, VDSL (I had until a week ago a VDSL here in at my present home that was faster then my cable in NY). but the video are for 101 so lets keep it simple.

[@looseycanon]

Something to add to 4 and 5G Intenet. You don't necessarily need to have your modem in a window or somewhere in the house, where it has good line of sight. Your ISP can also provide you with internal and external units, that work in concert with each other. The external unit is connected to the internal unit via cable and only connects to the 4/5G network, while your internal unit works as a typical router, and therefore can be placed nearly everywhere in the house. The down side? Since it needs to be conencted to the external unit with a cable, it usually cannot be moved or replaced.

[@SolucionesELP]

Very good video. Using the modem in bridge mode may not be secure in general cases since most users are not familiar with setting up a secure network, which can leave them vulnerable. It's important to consider the potential security risks associated with using bridge mode, as it requires users to configure their own network security measures.

[@RBzee112]

That's true, but novices have to start somewhere and build their knowledge.

[@James_Knott]

The reason for the difference in download vs upload rates is the technology used to deliver the service. Cable modems and ADSL tend to be asymmetric, in that they are not the same. This is due to the limitations of those technologies. On the other hand, other technology, such as fibre is usually symmetrical, or at least close to it. I'm getting about 920/32 Mb on my 500/30 cable modem connection. Re 4G/5G. There's more to it than that. 5G often uses the same bands as 4G and in those instances provides slightly better performance. On the other hand there are some 5G bands that are not used by 4G and they can provide significantly better performance, but with more limited distance. Another factor to consider is whether an ISP provides IPv6. That's the new address system that the world is moving to, but some ISPs are a bit on the slow side in moving to it.

[@johnpoldo8817]

Excellent tutorial

[@faiz.rahimm]

Liking this video even not starting play it yet :D

[@Baly7266-bis]

Thx

[@bretthibbs6083]

One thing I want to mention I had the problem of not being able to connect to the internet when I changed my modem/router to bridge mode cause I installed a better wireless router and the problem I had was a bad ethernet cable I think I was connecting to the net but it was super slow so I changed the cable out with a new one and it was fine. Also back in the early 2000's my brother had a wisp connection at his cabin up in northern Mn near duluth and it worked okay.

[@hirushamikaelson]

Nice ❤

[@PoliteChihuahua]

Chris, Have you tested a "First Mile M6 Gateway" to WAN Aggregate multiple ISPs? I saw this guy take one and input multiple Starlinks & 5G hotspots and it increases your capability. I kinda want to get one of these to feed the Unifi DM Pro. I wish the DM Pro had the WAN Link Agg as an option on their Mulit Wans instead of just Failover or Dist. Thoughts? Or is there a better(cheaper) device?

[@GunMD]

Thank you SO FREAKING MUCH for taking the time to point out the difference between Mbps and MB. That drives me crazy and it's good to know someone else it helping to spread the good word...

[@characterK]

I’m on a fiber team at an electric coop. Don’t forget electric coops across the country are currently building fiber to the homes and businesses in rural communities. So try to live in electric coop areas so you can get fiber.

[@JJFlores197]

If only we can get rid of PG&E

[@virgilschwake3279]

I hope its okay to steal the ball/ping thing. Never have found a good analogy for it that the older generation could understand!

[@SOU6900]

Where I live in the country wisps are everywhere. Just about everyone that lives on our road has that option but us.

[@Wolfyhack]

Great vidz, what is the average price of a fiber offer in your country ?...Here in France it's around 30€ (32 USD) per month for around 1Gbs

[@RBzee112]

It depends on how many providers are in your area. 1Gbps can be anywhere from 50 to 150 USD.

[@Wolfyhack]

@@RBzee112 outch!! It's expensive 🤣, it's true that in Europe, France is the country where Internet connection prices are the lowest.

[@mattrt12]

Yeah we are lucky where we live in Remote NT to have Fibre To The Premises...I am on 1000/40 here where as in Brisbane Capital city all I could get was 500/10 via co-ax

[@subhrajitpatra]

Recently my Wi-Fi router and my laptop are having problems with time sync to NTP Servers. Both are failing to sync with any NTP server. It is very strange. Does anybody has any idea about how to fix this?

[@RogierYou]

So far I have not found an ISP that allows to put a Fiberoptic combo modem into bridge mode 😞

[@kevnich2]

Fiber doesn't use modems, they use an ont and typically use a regular router of which you can use your own if you wish. The one exception is ATT fiber, they do require their router.

[@RichardCasto]

@@kevnich2 Isn't an ONT just another type of Modem? Doesn't Google Fiber use a combo fiber modem and router?

[@RBzee112]

Yes. The ONT is a modem. It modulates and demodulates the fiber optic signal to Ethernet. Modem = modulate/demodulate.

[@jagdtigger]

When you do the episode for ip addresses and firewalls could you spare a bit of time for ipv6. Ppl have some very wild misconceptions about v6, for example: "its insecure because there is no NAT so everything is globally reachable"........

[@wesley1983]

Who/what is Rogue Support?

[@CaptainAndy99]

MB = Mbps / 8 gives you an idea of how many MB you can download.

[@iamNotHereB]

Don't forget that starlink is basically building an always under maintenance filed of satellites that create obstacles to space travel and a constant source of space trash

[@leonk75]

Already likes when its not even aired. HAHAHA

[@amakaraphaeludeh7747]

Your contents are superb. These are the best practical videos I have seen so far. Please keep them coming

[@no0ne.]

I'm missing IPv6 😢

[@caeme9586]

TRACERT ?

[@SpreadAU]

DSL gets 100 down, 30 up still lol

[@aetherguy881]

Great story! Slightly similar experience for me when I had appendicitis. Glad we still have Boris around!

[@CalvinHenderson]

Modems are not required for all internet connections. Fiber removed the usage 20 years ago. Cable & DSL still require modem.

[@RBzee112]

The ONT is the modem for fiber.

[@CalvinHenderson]

@@RBzee112 point taken BUT it is not user accessible/ changed as modems are described. But your point fits the concept more than the use case.

[@jakobholzner]

at 12:32 you show an image of philips hue bulbs the light bulb itself doesn't communicate over wifi

[@skorpion1298]

Gigabit Coax User here in Germany. 1000Mbit down and 50 Mbit up. Costs around 75€. I’m interested what the costs are around the world :)