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How to Build a Cat 5 Cable
STEP 1 - Stripping
Start by pulling out about 12 feet of bulk network cable to making the process a little easier. Carefully remove the outer jacket of the cable exposing about 1 1/4" of the twisted pairs. Be careful when stripping the jacket as to not nick or cut the internal wiring. After removing the outer case you will notice 8 wires twisted in pairs and a rip cord (white thread).
article tags: cat 5 cable, how to build a cat 5 cable, cat5, ethernet cable, build a cable
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Network Security – The Real Vulnerabilities
Scenario: You work in a corporate environment in which you are, at least partially, responsible for network security. You have implemented a firewall, virus and spyware protection, and your computers are all up to date with patches and security fixes. You sit there and think about the lovely job you have done to make sure that you will not be hacked.
article tags: tech, support, computer, social, engineering, users, user
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Small Business Networking: Suggesting Dedicated Servers to Clients
PC-based servers and LANs may be relatively mature technologies. However, small businesses need your firm’s expertise, more than ever. For these businesses, you'll need to select, configure, customize, secure and maintain the right small business networking tools for their unique needs.
Real Small Business Networking Solutions Begin with Real Servers
How.
article tags: small business networking, small-business-networking
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Network Cabling: Available Options
As their IT consultant, your small business prospects and clients will need you to explain the different network cabling options available to them.
Traditional Wired Ethernet (Category 5)
Until very recently, Category 5 data cabling was the de facto standard for both enterprise and small business LANs. Today, you’ll find some enhancements available to Category 5 cabling, as well as booming interest in wireless Ethernet solutions.
article tags: network cabling, network-cabling
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Recognize And Understand Home Networking Components
If you have not decided already,you will soon want to network your two or more computers in your home. You want to be armed to the teach with knowledge of just what it takes to connect your computers to one another.
You first should decide which network is best your you. If your computers are in the same room,the Wireless network should not be considered.
article tags: computer repair, computer upgrades, computer training, software
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The Simplest Way to Get Online Passive Income
Based on my research, this seems to be the basic principle that website owners have been following to get passive income online:
* Get many people to come to your website * Get them to click on your Adsense links
Sounds simple enough. Get people into your website from Google search, then link out to an Adsense Ad. Search In – Adsense Out.
Practically applying it to get sufficient commendable income, however, can be quite a challenge.
article tags: isulong seoph, seoph, seo, seo philippines
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What is search engine gateway?
Navino launched its search engine gateway service recently. For most of the Internet surfers, search engine gateway is a pretty new concept compared with meta search engine or multi search engine. Put it in simple, it is a web service, which can let you search the best information from the best content providers in one website.
When we try to find information everyday, most of us might go to Google.
article tags: search engine, search gateway, search engine gateway
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5 Steps to Securing Your Windows XP Home Computer
Most people are aware that there are continuous security issues with Microsoft’s Windows operating system and other programs. However, what most people do not realize is how easy it is to significantly improve your computer’s security and reduce the likelihood of becoming a victim to ever increasingly sophisticated threats that lurk on the internet.
article tags: computer security, anti virus, spyware, firewall
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RFID, its implications and how to defeat
Imagine a future in which your every belonging is marked with a unique number identifiable with the swipe of a scanner, where the location of your car is always pinpoint-able and where signal-emitting microchips storing personal information are implanted beneath your skin or embedded in your inner organs.
This is the possible future of radio frequency.
article tags: rfid, privacy, anonymous proxy, anonymous web surfing, money laundering, scams
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IT Networking: Cost-Savings, Productivity and Security
By engaging small business decision makers in discussions about their IT networking needs, you can highlight how automating services like faxing will save your prospect’s or client’s company on manual labor, which indirectly translates into substantial salary savings over the course of the year.
At the very least, network-based faxing will free up staff to focus on higher-level activities, rather than "babysitting" an archaic fax machine.
article tags: it-networking, it networking, computer networking
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Networking Terms: Educating Your Clients
It is very important to educate your small business prospects and clients on key small business networking terms and buzzwords. After all, in order to "win them over", you need to be speaking the same language. In fact, you may even want to prepare a "cheat sheet", based on the below definitions, to help you in your prospect and client pre-sales activities.
article tags: networking terms, networking-terms
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IT Network: Faxing Capabilities
If you sense resistance during the IT network sales cycle, listen very carefully to the prospect's objections. Many times, they like what they hear, but small business owners need to hear three or four different opinions in order to bolster their confidence. Take time to understand exactly what's driving the investment in this planned IT network.
In small business IT consulting many of your prospects and clients will have similar IT network needs.
article tags: it network, it-network
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IT Consulting: Networking Steps
Starting an IT consulting business requires patience and dedication. The hardest part is often getting new clients. In this article, learn some more of the steps you should take before beginning your IT consulting practice.
Step Sixteen: Get Your Networking Contacts into a Follow Up Plan
With every business card you collect, jot down the date that you met them and any relevant notes about them.
article tags: it consulting, it-consulting
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Windows Server 2003 Active Directory and Network Infrastructure
It is a hierarchical representation of all the objects and their attributes available on the network. It enables administrators to manage the network resources, i.e., computers, users, printers, shared folders, etc., in an easy way. The logical structure represented by Active Directory consists of forests, trees, domains, organizational units, and individual objects.
article tags: active directory, windows 2000, winows 2003, networking
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Valuing Network Certifications - Is The Time, Money And Effort Worth The Bother?
There are many ways to get any of the large number of network certifications now available. There's not only software certification like those offered from Oracle, Java, Microsoft, etc. but there's also direct network hardware certifications from strong companies like Cisco and then there's the server administration, hardware repair, security and several sub category type certifications.
article tags: computer training, computer network training, aplus, networking certifications, oracle, java training, ciw training, cisco training, comptia, cisco certification, a+, oracle training
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58% Of Businesses Expect An IT Security Breach in the Next 12 Months
A recent government survey of over 500 small businesses covering London and Surrey regions revealed that 58% of company owners expect a security breach in their IT system in the next year. 24% of those surveyed had already been subjected to a security breach and this is worrying as there are many IT support & network solutions available in the marketplace for peace-of-mind, without having to break budgets.
article tags: it support, disaster recovery, blackberry, network support, computer support, it system, remote access, remote desktop
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Wireless Network Security in 6 Easy Steps
Copyright 2006 Chris Kaminski
Connecting your home and office computers with a wireless network sure makes things convenient ...BUT the very feature that makes them so popular is also their biggest weakness! Anyone with the knowledge can intercept your signal and gain access to your network if it is not secure. The technicians at computerguyslive.com offer the following six easy steps to wireless security for your home or office.
article tags: wireless security, wireless network security, wireless internet security, wireless security wep, security enabled wireless network, wireless security information, security wireless, best wireless security, wireless security system, wireless security
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Network Support Contracts Can Provide Personal Help
Network support contracts are most commonly provided in the workplace to help maximize the efficiency of daily operations and also help professionals best keep their technology up and running. But students and others not using laptops for business purposes also need to be assured that their networking capabilities are insured. For these people, it may only take a few simple steps to get the peace of mind of a network support contract.
article tags: network support contracts, network-support-contracts
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Extending The Range Of Wireless Networks
Although a wireless transmitter is limited in its range, wireless extension points can be installed to boost its signal and make the range of the network much larger. These wireless extension points are commonly known as repeaters.
Several companies have started to manufacture wireless repeaters, despite the fact that these devices are not part of the wireless standard.
article tags: wireless, internet, broadband, network
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Computer Networking Business: Creating Clients
The computer networking business is very competitive and is very dependent upon promotion. You need to implement promotional strategies that will distinguish you from the competition, including word of mouth, advertising, publicity and networking.
Word Of Mouth And Networking
Successful networking is all about creating relationships. If you find businesses in your network and figure out ways you can help them, these same businesses will probably want to help you in the future.
article tags: computer networking, computer-networking
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Computer Networking Business Start-up and Hiring Key Employees
Hiring employees in the computer networking business is an exact science. Many computer networking business owners don't have the knowledge required to hire the best and most experienced employees, even though hiring these people is one of the most beneficial factors of business growth. There is a formula to follow that can help you, as a business owner hire the right employees for your computer networking business.
article tags: computer networking, computer-networking
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Ethernet - explained
Do you use Ethernet? You might think that you don’t, but don’t be so sure. Ethernet is everywhere – if you use a networked computer, whether it’s at home or in your office, you’re using Ethernet.
Ethernet is two things: a kind of cable for connecting computers together, and the method of communication that the computers use over the cables. Essentially, it is the glue that holds LANs (local area networks) together.
article tags: ethernet, network, internet
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Networking
Wiring up a LAN (local area network) can be very easy, or it can be very difficult – it all depends on the size of your network, and how you’re trying to go about it.
For a very small home network, you can get by without using any special equipment except the wires. If you want to use a network to share Internet access or a printer, just plug an Ethernet cable into the computers you want to network, and then use the simple networking features that are built into Windows, such as Internet Connection Sharing.
article tags: ethernet, network, internet
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Setting up your network
Configuring a LAN used to be a real pain. You had to manually assign a network address to each device on the network, and keep a record of them to make sure that you didn’t use the same one twice – if you did, both devices would stop working. However, modern LANs with routers using a system called DHCP.
DHCP stands for dynamic host configuration protocol.
article tags: ethernet, network, internet
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Wireless versus Ethernet networks
In recent years, Ethernet hasn’t exactly been fashionable. People are sick of running long wires all over the place, making holes in their walls, and being restricted when it comes to where they can use their computer. Wireless networking has become all the rage – and some predict that it will have killed off Ethernet altogether within a few years.
Wireless networking works by transmitting radio waves through the air.
article tags: ethernet, network, internet