Chris Stark’s Blog

My Mike Meyers Network+ Certification book arrived today and now studying towards that. Looking at a one month time span to pass this… thats around July/Mid July.

Shall be A+ & Network+ Certified soon.

On other notes i turned 20 last saturday, day after i was A+ Certified.

Also, i got some very useful experience with the Thanet Development Trust helping with support and maintenance.

That’s all, life going great and soon hopefully i will break into the IT industry.

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Yup that’s right. Passed my OS today with a score of 604.

I didn’t like that exam one bit as i wasn’t sure if i passed at the end, but luckily enough i passed.

Now onto my N+ Cert.

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Not posted on here in a while, i’m still alive.

I’ll do a full post of what i’m up to in a week or so, rather busy at the moment.

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Today i successfully configured my Cisco 2501 router to ping servers on the internet and forward conenctions to my ADSL router.

My Cisco 2501 router doesn’t have a ADSL modem built in, so i had to manually set the default gateway for the Cisco router to my ADSL router which at present is (192.168.0.1). I then had to set a DNS server, again my ADSL router. The Cisco router was getting the IP of google fine but wasn’t pinging it, so i had to enable something (i forgot now, but i enabled about 3 different things at once) and can now ping google.co.uk!

I then changed my default gateway on my XP machine to 192.168.0.30 (Cisco Router) and the Cisco Router was successfully redirecting the connection to my ADSL Router! Otherwise i wouldn’t have been able to access the interweb.

Next job is to limit my speed to a 56k speed and see how slow the Internet is and to see if speed limiting works. I got another Cisco 2503 router which i have a couple of new ideas for.

Might take the CCNA one day!

Just got a new job working for budweiser, how cool is that? Also got my own email address: cstark@budwesier.com. The pay isn’t bad either and the people are great! you even get to have beer on breaks!

Dream come true!

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I’ve now got a nice 8Mbps connection, it rocks.

In other events, i’m still trying my best to get a job in IT related work and should be expecting a call tomorrow hopefuly.

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