Hands-on networking coursework focused on packet analysis, TCP/IP troubleshooting, network design, wireless networking, performance testing, and WAN monitoring.
Wireshark · TCP/IP · Ethernet · IPv4 · DNS · ARP · DHCP · Windows Networking · LAN/WAN · Wireless Networking
Captured and analyzed network traffic in Wireshark, identifying protocol data across Ethernet, IPv4, TCP, and HTTP layers.
Skills demonstrated: packet capture analysis, protocol identification, HTTP request inspection, layered network troubleshooting.
Inspected Ethernet frames, reviewed source/destination addressing, and identified the IPv4 EtherType value 0x0800.
Skills demonstrated: Ethernet II, MAC addressing, frame analysis, IPv4 identification.
Used Windows networking utilities to inspect system configuration and troubleshoot connectivity.
Tools used:
ipconfigpingarpnslookuptracert
Skills demonstrated: IP configuration, gateway/DNS troubleshooting, ARP inspection, hostname resolution, route tracing, connectivity testing.
Created and interpreted a network topology containing Internet connectivity, routing/firewall infrastructure, switching, wireless access, client devices, servers, and other networked systems.
Skills demonstrated: network-device roles, LAN design, wired/wireless connectivity, client-server architecture.
Developed a proposed network architecture using switches, routers, servers, firewalls, wireless access points, Ethernet cabling, fiber backbone links, MDF locations, and star/hierarchical topology concepts.
Skills demonstrated: network planning, structured cabling, infrastructure design, scalability, MDF/server-room concepts.
Reviewed nearby wireless networks by 802.11 standard, channel usage, channel width, and WPA2 configuration.
Skills demonstrated: Wi-Fi standards, wireless channels, frequency bands, WPA2 Personal vs. Enterprise.
Compared throughput and latency using geographically different test servers and analyzed the effects of distance, congestion, routing, and infrastructure.
Skills demonstrated: latency analysis, throughput testing, network-performance interpretation.
Compared WAN latency and packet-loss data across city pairs and reviewed long-term response statistics.
Skills demonstrated: WAN performance monitoring, packet-loss interpretation, latency comparison, geographic network analysis.
- Packet Tracer vs. GNS3
- Home Network Infrastructure Recommendation
- Network Software Comparison
- Cabling Cost Comparison
- Backup & Recovery Options
- Wireshark packet capture and protocol analysis
- Ethernet II, IPv4, TCP, HTTP, DNS, QUIC, and TLS
- Windows command-line network troubleshooting
- IP addressing, subnet masks, default gateways, DHCP, DNS, and MAC addressing
- LAN/WAN concepts and topology design
- Wireless networking and WPA2 security
- Latency, packet loss, and throughput analysis
- Network cabling and infrastructure planning
- Backup/recovery comparison
- Network architecture research
INSY-3303-Computer-Networks-and-Distributed-Computing/
├── labs/
│ ├── 01-wireshark-http-analysis/
│ ├── 02-ethernet-frame-analysis/
│ ├── 03-network-diagnostics/
│ ├── 04-network-topology/
│ ├── 05-network-design/
│ ├── 06-wireless-network-analysis/
│ ├── 07-network-performance/
│ └── 08-wan-monitoring/
└── research/
Screenshots containing local device identifiers, MAC addresses, IP configuration details, or nearby Wi-Fi network names were intentionally excluded from the public repository.