Archive for May, 2009
Is a Cat5 cable the same as a ethernet cable?
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009Beatle dude asked:
i was just wondering if a Cat5 cable was the same as a ethernet cable……
thank you guys
Shannon
i was just wondering if a Cat5 cable was the same as a ethernet cable……
thank you guys
Shannon
Advancements in Networking Hardware and Computer Peripherals
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009Maximum Hit asked:
In this era of computers, there is hardly any household without a personal computer at home. Computers are now believed to be the solution to all daily works that one needs to search for. Life has been much better than before with all your needs being fulfilled at yours arms distance. The electronic market is booming with hundreds of latest technology computer peripherals being launched and sold in short spans of time.
With quick advancements in technology, the size and the price of the devices has gradually come down, while the efficiency and capacity has considerably increased. The scenario is same in all cases, whether it is about internal components like processor, RAM, motherboard, graphics card, and hard disk or for peripheral accessories like mouse, speakers, Bluetooth dongles, keyboards (wired/wireless), monitors etc.
Since many years, the main advancement has been seen in trends of the data storage. Latest technology hard drives and RAM’s have now given us the freedom to store and transfer unlimited amounts of on our systems. Also with newer versions of flash memory cards, USB extension cables, portable drives and other mobile computer accessories, carrying data along with you has become much easier. USB is a serial interface technology that has replaced existing serial and parallel ports drastically making connections clean and manageable.
Communication with your loved ones has been facilitated through the internet at much cheaper costs. With significant increase in varieties of handheld computer accessories like webcams, Ethernet cables, earphones and wireless broadband LAN computer networking hardware, keeping you connected to the whole world is no longer an expensive procedure. Also with the coming of wifi mesh networking hardware support and cat5e, cat6, Cat6a cables there has been a tremendous enhancement in the wireless technologies. The cat5e, cat6, Cat6a cable standard provides performance of up to 250 MHz and is suitable for 10BASE-T / 100BASE-TX and 1000BASE-T (Gigabit Ethernet).
Our mode of entertainment has also seen gradual technological changes in multimedia stuff. The quality of voice and visual devices has effectively been refined over years. With the coming of powerful digital media players and audio visual cables it is possible to listen to music with refined bass and vocals and visualize smooth functioning of graphics.
Despite the incredible improvement in performance and functionalities of computer hardware and networking peripherals, the price of these components has actually fallen steadily. There are vast arrays of computer peripherals that allow us to do amazing things. But in my opinion we should go for the type of peripherals that suit our daily life in every way.
Alan
In this era of computers, there is hardly any household without a personal computer at home. Computers are now believed to be the solution to all daily works that one needs to search for. Life has been much better than before with all your needs being fulfilled at yours arms distance. The electronic market is booming with hundreds of latest technology computer peripherals being launched and sold in short spans of time.
With quick advancements in technology, the size and the price of the devices has gradually come down, while the efficiency and capacity has considerably increased. The scenario is same in all cases, whether it is about internal components like processor, RAM, motherboard, graphics card, and hard disk or for peripheral accessories like mouse, speakers, Bluetooth dongles, keyboards (wired/wireless), monitors etc.
Since many years, the main advancement has been seen in trends of the data storage. Latest technology hard drives and RAM’s have now given us the freedom to store and transfer unlimited amounts of on our systems. Also with newer versions of flash memory cards, USB extension cables, portable drives and other mobile computer accessories, carrying data along with you has become much easier. USB is a serial interface technology that has replaced existing serial and parallel ports drastically making connections clean and manageable.
Communication with your loved ones has been facilitated through the internet at much cheaper costs. With significant increase in varieties of handheld computer accessories like webcams, Ethernet cables, earphones and wireless broadband LAN computer networking hardware, keeping you connected to the whole world is no longer an expensive procedure. Also with the coming of wifi mesh networking hardware support and cat5e, cat6, Cat6a cables there has been a tremendous enhancement in the wireless technologies. The cat5e, cat6, Cat6a cable standard provides performance of up to 250 MHz and is suitable for 10BASE-T / 100BASE-TX and 1000BASE-T (Gigabit Ethernet).
Our mode of entertainment has also seen gradual technological changes in multimedia stuff. The quality of voice and visual devices has effectively been refined over years. With the coming of powerful digital media players and audio visual cables it is possible to listen to music with refined bass and vocals and visualize smooth functioning of graphics.
Despite the incredible improvement in performance and functionalities of computer hardware and networking peripherals, the price of these components has actually fallen steadily. There are vast arrays of computer peripherals that allow us to do amazing things. But in my opinion we should go for the type of peripherals that suit our daily life in every way.
Alan
can i use cat5 wire to make breadboard jumpers?
Saturday, May 23rd, 2009just_add_h2o_here asked:
i have recently run out of wires to use as jumpers, and i need them faster than buying them. i have some spare cat5 cables lying around, am i ok to take the insulation off and just strip the ends and twist the individual threads to use them as jumpers?
Andre
i have recently run out of wires to use as jumpers, and i need them faster than buying them. i have some spare cat5 cables lying around, am i ok to take the insulation off and just strip the ends and twist the individual threads to use them as jumpers?
Andre
how do i connect a computer to an exsiting modem viv the cat5 cable?
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009Randy asked:
i would like to have internet on my old pc but simply plugging in the cat5 does not solve this . how would i be able to take the cat5 out of the other computer and plug it into the old one
Kelly
i would like to have internet on my old pc but simply plugging in the cat5 does not solve this . how would i be able to take the cat5 out of the other computer and plug it into the old one
Kelly
How do I connect to computers through CAT5 and transfer data?
Sunday, May 17th, 2009hockeyfreak182001 asked:
HELP!!! I just got a new laptop, with vista, and I’m trying to connect it to my old computer, with XP, and transfer my itunes. I have the CAT5 cable set up but don’t know how to set up the connection.
Joy
HELP!!! I just got a new laptop, with vista, and I’m trying to connect it to my old computer, with XP, and transfer my itunes. I have the CAT5 cable set up but don’t know how to set up the connection.
Joy
I need to wire a PA Loud speaker using cat5 cable?
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009dakirch asked:
The speaker has a green, red, black, and white cable on it for connections. My Cat5 cable already has the orange pair used for a phone line. My question is which pairs should i use to hook to the speakers and which colors to which? (not a good job for a network administrator, at least in my mind)
Alicia
The speaker has a green, red, black, and white cable on it for connections. My Cat5 cable already has the orange pair used for a phone line. My question is which pairs should i use to hook to the speakers and which colors to which? (not a good job for a network administrator, at least in my mind)
Alicia
Is it possible to share an external hard drive to 3 computers via USB (cannot use cat5 LAN cable)?
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009Features Of The Modern Business Phone Systems
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009Joe Goertz asked:
The most unique feature of today’s phone systems is that they link phone, computer and fax into one integrated package. Many businesses do this by installing their own wiring, called CAT5e, instead of using the old phone company cables.
All systems begin with the basic ability to send and receive local and long-distance calls world wide. Common features include call waiting, call forwarding, remote access, and caller ID. For business applications, phones must offer more. Perhaps one of the most useful features is the auto-attendant. When customers call in, they hear an automated menu of options. This may include instructions to press particular numbers to reach divisions within the business (press 1 to reach sales, press 2…etc.). Menus can be set up to automatically change after regular hours and on the weekends.
To avoid customers feeling as if they have been dropped into space while on hold, most systems have music on hold features. More sophisticated systems can allow different types of music to be programmed for different types of customers.
When the call is moved from the switch board to an employee, other features are important. The system should provide unlimited extensions. Each extension should have a message created by the employee that comes on when there is no one available to answer the phone. As well, there should be a means of identifying callers (caller ID), saving messages (voice mail), forwarding calls when the employee is at another desk, and sending calls when the employee is out of the office. Of particular value is the “hot desk” feature. This allows employees to move from desk to desk, taking their calls and voice mail with them.
To handle both voice and data transmissions, phone systems must have dedicated lines for each. A voice T1 system allows for 24 channels per phone line with 24 separate numbers. T1s are also used for Internet access. Internet download and upload speeds vary depending on the equipment used. Integrated T1 systems carry both voice and data on one line. VoiP (Voice over Internet Protocols) is a system for using the Internet to carry phone calls. There are a number of advantages to VoiP, including the ability to plug into the internet and make free calls from anywhere in the world.
It is essential that the phone system be able to handle conference calls. The proper phone bridge permits an unlimited number of internal participants and as many external callers as there are phone lines. Some systems even have the capability for handling unlimited external callers. With video conferencing more popular, phone lines can be used to carry both voice and video images.
There are many different systems available, and each one of them offer its own array of features especially suited for today’s companies. Most can be easily upgraded with new components.
Kenneth
The most unique feature of today’s phone systems is that they link phone, computer and fax into one integrated package. Many businesses do this by installing their own wiring, called CAT5e, instead of using the old phone company cables.
All systems begin with the basic ability to send and receive local and long-distance calls world wide. Common features include call waiting, call forwarding, remote access, and caller ID. For business applications, phones must offer more. Perhaps one of the most useful features is the auto-attendant. When customers call in, they hear an automated menu of options. This may include instructions to press particular numbers to reach divisions within the business (press 1 to reach sales, press 2…etc.). Menus can be set up to automatically change after regular hours and on the weekends.
To avoid customers feeling as if they have been dropped into space while on hold, most systems have music on hold features. More sophisticated systems can allow different types of music to be programmed for different types of customers.
When the call is moved from the switch board to an employee, other features are important. The system should provide unlimited extensions. Each extension should have a message created by the employee that comes on when there is no one available to answer the phone. As well, there should be a means of identifying callers (caller ID), saving messages (voice mail), forwarding calls when the employee is at another desk, and sending calls when the employee is out of the office. Of particular value is the “hot desk” feature. This allows employees to move from desk to desk, taking their calls and voice mail with them.
To handle both voice and data transmissions, phone systems must have dedicated lines for each. A voice T1 system allows for 24 channels per phone line with 24 separate numbers. T1s are also used for Internet access. Internet download and upload speeds vary depending on the equipment used. Integrated T1 systems carry both voice and data on one line. VoiP (Voice over Internet Protocols) is a system for using the Internet to carry phone calls. There are a number of advantages to VoiP, including the ability to plug into the internet and make free calls from anywhere in the world.
It is essential that the phone system be able to handle conference calls. The proper phone bridge permits an unlimited number of internal participants and as many external callers as there are phone lines. Some systems even have the capability for handling unlimited external callers. With video conferencing more popular, phone lines can be used to carry both voice and video images.
There are many different systems available, and each one of them offer its own array of features especially suited for today’s companies. Most can be easily upgraded with new components.
Kenneth
Do they sell CAT5 networking cable at Dollarama?
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009dan_james6_6 asked:
I know Dollarama sells phone cables, splitters, etc. but I was wondering if anyone knows if they sell CAT5 cable for computer networking?
Jessie
I know Dollarama sells phone cables, splitters, etc. but I was wondering if anyone knows if they sell CAT5 cable for computer networking?
Jessie