The Internet Book: Everything You Need to Know about Computer Networking and How the Internet Works

He's the leader in his field. I've used his books for teaching and as referrals. He's so readable but does not talk down to you like the silly "dummy" stuff. You'll be so glad you gave this a try.

Douglas Comer has an amazing ability to cut through the heavy fog that surrounds Internet technology. Many well trained and accomplished academics are terrible writers. I have wasted much money buying from these authors. I have read Douglas Comer's many books from detailed implentation of TCP/IP to overview of computer networks and internet. I am not surprised by the excellent quality of this book. I will buy any book anytime that Dr. Comer writes. I think this all the result of his pioneering reseach and great desire to teach.

From this book ,I know that the author understand the Internet and has a lot of expierences on Internet.He can explain the theories and practices clearly and logicaly. By reading this book,I gradually understand the Internet ,that is :how the Internet can provide the communication function and can make you share the resources with the others.

Comer's book presents a highly technical topic in a readable and easily understood format--almost like prose! I started to read the book in small parts in order to understand only particular chapters, but it is so readable that I read it from the first chapter to the last. In fact, I read over 100 pages in one sitting--something that normally I can do with someone like John Gresham or Tom Clancy, not an author of computer networking. This is a great book for anyone who wants to understand data networking and the Internet. It covered the entire subject without using words like ethernet, token ring or frame-relay

If you're like me, one of those 'dummie' PC users that has never been able to speak the language of the MIS people, this author does a great job of putting stuff in a language you can understand. Mysterious and intimidating acronyms like LAN and ASKII suddenly seem so simple. Why is this kind of person, who can translate between the language of MIS people and the rest of us, so hard to come by? I hope this author writes a whole lot more stuff for "the rest of us" who'd really like to "get it", but can't find anyone "bi-lingual". I picked up this book in hopes of gleaning understanding of the internet, but ended up getting much more out of it. By going back to the basics, and assuming no computer literacy, this author filled in a lot of holes in my understanding. Granted there are a lot more holes to fill, but it's refreshing to know that at least one person has figured out how to bridge the language gap