Looking for good books to read to learn about networking..

I looking for a book or two that will explain to me about networking what is a network and about the network itself. I have knowledge about networking now but want to learn more about the network,more about routers, switches, hubs as in setting them up, why are they needed, etc...

Is there any books out there for something like this.
thanks,
Bill

 

w.young--No experience myself, but one source of info for you would be www.google.com .
I searched on "Networking Tutorial" and got this
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=networking++tutorial&btnG=Google+Search
You, of course, could enter all sorts of other search terms to narrow, refine, etc.

 

Depends what aspects of networking you want to pursue...

The books I used are all about 20 years old...

...they had titles that incorporated phrases like "fundamentals of data communications "

...but why not use the web?

Click on this -- Black boxes

Click on this - Ethernet

Charles Spurgeon wrote a book on Ethernet for O'Reilly -- I haven't seen it -- don't have an opinion.

 

I found this listing on the net:http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-100119.html

Regards,
J. M.