4.8. Troubleshooting Various Network Infrastructures

While there are many ways to build a network, there are really only two main types of network infrastructure in today's networks: wired and wireless. Based on this infrastructure decision, a network administrator or network designer inherits all of the advantages and disadvantages of that type of network. Typically, wireless networks are not completely wireless but actually a wireless infrastructure connected to a wired infrastructure. This means that the network will benefit from all of the advantages of both but will also suffer from all of the disadvantages of both. In this section, we discuss each of these types of network infrastructures and the potential network problems related to each ...

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