Ethernet Wiring for Home Networking

Ethernet Wiring for Home Networking

Although “Wifi” is simpler for a lot of people, due to multimedia sharing, bandwidth on some  home networks, some users  really want a hard-wired home networking solution. A wired network allows a private, high speed, network at home for Internet access, file...
Shielded or Unshielded Cat6 cable?

Shielded or Unshielded Cat6 cable?

With high bandwidth applications and network systems venturing into factory environments, the need for shielded Cat 6 cable has increased. In these new areas of installation, the environment where the network cable is run has large amounts of EMI (Electro-Magnetic...
All About Cat6a Cable

All About Cat6a Cable

It was once thought that copper cabling would never support speeds above 1 Gig, but Augmented Category 6, or Cat6a – has proven that wrong. Copper still lives and copper cabling may still be around at 40 Gig. There has been much debate about which is the better...
Cat6 Q&A

Cat6 Q&A

What is Cat6? Cat6 components are interoperable between different vendors and are fully backward compatible. Cat6 has the same nominal Impedance of 100 Ohms as Cat5 and 5e components, but with tighter tolerance on Impedance variations. Transmission parameters are...
The Microsoft Effect

The Microsoft Effect

It began so well. Microsoft wrote DOS. They started small and they created an operating system for the IBM PC that opened up a new world for the common, everyday programmer. DOS was sometimes a bit tricky. I recall issues with getting printers and modems to work....