Learning Log for Data Networks: Week 5 and 6 (Defense)

It’s been 4 weeks since I enjoyed using the Packet Tracer and with this joy, there are problems that is needed to be faced. Midterm is coming and we all had to study hard especially in our Data Networks and Communications subject specifically our midterm paper presentation. For me and only my opinion, our midterm paper proposal is just a misunderstanding or a miscalculated draft because when we did that draft, we were not able to study more about our proposal and we didn’t have time to really analyze it more, piece by piece. I hope that we could really present our midterm proposal harmoniously and thoroughly without any misconception and misinterpretation. For the past 2 weeks, I have been thinking about our proposal, what we should do, when we should be clarifying it, and how will this work for our group. For the week 5, we only had 1^st meeting, but it should have been 2 due to weather condition, and the first meeting was we did exercise number 5 that shows connection from department to depart, enabling them to transmit emails bi-directionally. The second meeting was unexpected and this is the time when we prolonged our midterm paper and state what we have learned in the internet about the given topic to us. Since the beginning when we passed our midterm paper, I did expect any major corrections, but when we received our drafts it’s just minor corrections and I didn’t expect that kind of feedback because our group knows that it was not well developed, fetus as we say. In the 1^st meeting of week 6, we were relief and glad because we had received much tips and guidance from our professor regarding our proposal, this event had brighten up my day and gave me the will to do the midterm presentation. Also in the 2^nd meeting of week 6, we had learned different kinds of protocols and give me some push on how should I mold my proposal because I know that our proposal is just in the clay layer and it should be well molded before the midterm week. Sad to say that midterm is just days away, but happy to say that there would be a short vacation for us to relax our mind and remember our loved ones who had fallen asleep, I know that we could exceed our best and hope that everything goes well according to our plan.   

Learning Log for Data Networks: Week 3 and 4 (Tracing Diagram)

Another 2 weeks had come since I study the anatomy of network and I began to make some hypothesis towards this subject, but I couldn’t prove it in a short period of time. For the week 3 of our data network, we had begun to use an application called Packet Tracer 101 with the capability to show relations of the different kinds of electronic devices that could be associated with networks. At first I could not cope up with the application and it took me a week before I understand what am I doing those past few days and now I really enjoy using this application because it provides much information to a specific electronic device about their characteristics not only in the application, but also the real characteristics of that device through their physical image representation. The environment of this application could be easily understand by any kind of person because all you need is just displayed in there and you’re the one who will be doing the algorithm, but for all the easiness there is a counter-part and that counter-part is the manipulation of the router. At first I could not be able to follow what my professor is doing because I really don’t know what how to code the right inputs for the router. Then I studied really hard at home to answer all my problems and by the way I downloaded Packet Tracer at home and this is free and now I know how to code the router. You should always check if the ip address, subnet mask, default gateway inputs are similar with the router to be able to have a connection and this is my secondary problem and this made me very mad because the devices in that application have no connection, but I easily apprehended this problem with the help of my seatmate. 2 weeks has passed and now I know how to use the Packet Tracer but not that good, I’m still encountering many hindrances that I could not solve and questions that I could not answer.