Great! Only downfall was the time it took 2 get. Besides that book was in very good condition. No highligts/markings and no bent pages.
Would def do business w/ Seller again. Btw...ty Seller.
Newyorican1
Textbooks are too expensive Same review as other textbook reviews (by me).
I am not big on Government intervention, but, while this textbook is as good as any others - most textbooks are way too expensive. It becomes a sort of monopoly (and a tax on students that is unavoidable).
My PhD is in Instructional Technology - so I had to purchase this book. Perhaps my IT bias leads me to my conclusion -- we should not have to pay this much money for a paper book.
Maybe I just don't understand why it costs over $100 for a book - particularly for a technology book that will soon become an outdated and unusable reference.
Finally, I come to this conclusion even though the money for all of my textbooks are provided by my scholarship. Students are already saddled with extraneous costs -- costs that are piled upon by publishers of textbooks.Writing Accuracy Just one issue: The text would repeatedly refer to various devices, procedures, menus, etc. inaccurately. It made using IT Guru frustrating at times because I wasn't always sure if I was selecting or doing the right thing. Perhaps they should have had someone actually use it before they published. "?"well presented explanations [A review of the 8th EDITION, that was published in late 2006.]
Stallings takes the student reader through an extensive introduction to current computer networking. Focusing naturally on TCP/IP, as the Internet is the largest computer network in the world. He shows how TCP/IP can be related to the theoretical 7 layer OSI model. The 5 layers of TCP/IP have proved to be well adequate to this date.
En route, he provides very simple analogies to the protocol stack, as this sometimes gives students grief. One analogy is for the physical layer to be mapped to a telephone line. Then on one side, there is a stack for ordering pizza - consisting of a guest at a hotel, a host and a telephone. The other stack has the pizza cook, the order clerk and a telephone. Here, we see a 3 [or 4] layer stack, that is readily understandable. (It's easier to see the structure in the book's diagram.] Well, if you can follow this, then TCP/IP is not so different.
The book also explains various multiplexing methods, like frequency division or time division, without drowning the student in maths. The treatment is qualitative, and does not replace a full course in communications theory.
The discussion on routing, however, while also qualitative, is closer to actual implementations. The routing strategies can be quite adequately understood at the level given in the text.
There is one chapter devoted to wireless networks [ie. for cellphones]. Given the still strong rise in cellphone usage in developing countries, this chapter might well be expanded in future editions of the book.
WiFi is covered, but not WiMax. Well, it is still early days for deployment of the latter, whereas WiFi's popularity is established. Interesting stuff. most interesting part of this book was adsl, cable, vdsl because our family are using FastAccess DSL(adsl with 1.5 megabyte patch)from Bellsouth(which is merged with At&T).
