Posts Tagged ‘networking cable’

December 7 2008

Careful With Plastic Separate In RJ45

Be careful to examine the plastic separating each pin in the RJ45 plug, as abuse or neglect may cause the plastic to bend over the pin and prevent the corresponding wire in the jack from making contact. This is a common problem with patch cables.

Two examples of damaged RJ45 plugs found while LAN network troubleshooting.

November 26 2008

Tested Patch Cables

test lan cableThe early or pre-standard Category 6A and Class EA links may well have similar results. Thus, if you are attempting to upgrade your cable plant to a higher level of performance it is necessary to retest each link in its final configuration to ensure that the link meets your expectations. Do not trust any labeling or marketing guarantee if you do not have a completely homogenous cable system installed at the same time from the same run of manufactured cable and connecting hardware.

October 5 2008

Home Signal Affected

When setting up home network, you will require a few equipment to send out and receive the signals that will be carried, whether by radio or cables. A network interface card popular known as NIC commonly an Ethernet card is one component part that you’ll need. These are common, very cheap, and come in different range of speeds in between 10MB and 1 GB or more. The speeds depend on the card you use of 802.11g wireless network works at 54MB per second, while a 802.11b network runs at 11MB per second. As prices keep dropping, the lower speeds are becoming less commonly seen.

October 2 2008

How Home Networking Works

Fax machines, scanners, printers and other computers operate in the same way. Every device receives an address and a name. Software on these devices allows it to be configured so that its function is accessible to multiple computers on the same network.

At home network system also has the mail envelope or popular known as the routing data. This surrounds the data or the words on the letter. A home network comes in two main types: cabled and wireless. In a cabled network different wire bundles which are known as Ethernet cables with connectors on each end plug into either a network interface card, or NIC, in the printer, fax, computer or into a switch/router. Hubs or switches are simplified devices that allow physical connections between the components of a network.

September 29 2008

Simply Plug In and Networking Home

Among the primary advantages of home power line network devices are they’re ease of installation. Before home plug networking, cabling up a house for Internet access affected the costly and refined task of running of Ethernet cables behind the walls and below the floors in every room. On home power cable networking, whole that’s needed to connect one room to another are two Home Plug Ethernet adapters. Connect one of the adapters up to your DSL modem or gateway, and you will have got Internet access in the room where the other adapter is plugged in with none of the bothers, all of the advantages.

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