Items Tagged With cabling

Version 1.02 (Last updated August 2007) 

AzteQ Solutions and CableNet (HomeMaster) have joined forces to give end users and home builders a one-stop-shop Home Networking solution.

In today's domestic environment, there is an ever increasing demand for technical additions to the home infrastructure. Apart from the need to use, daily items such as microwave cookers, dishwashers and DVD players, the requirement for whole families to utilize computer technology and access the Internet is growing at a tremendous rate.

These additional needs are causing problems within the traditional constructed home setting, which normally only allows for TV, phone and electrical connections. For instance, parents and children alike have constant requirements for Internet access for on-line banking, e-mailing, homework, research and multi-player games. Furthermore, family arguments are often caused over who uses the printer, who can play music or watch a movie, unless each computer has its own printer, phone line and DVD...

Submission by Keith Doxey - The cable marking system employed uses bands of coloured insulating tape to identify the different cables. It is much quicker than some of the adhesive tapes printed with numbers, and more rugged than writing on the sheath of the cable.

From past experience I have found that even when using a permanent marker the ink still gets rubbed off or becomes illegible due to handling or dirt getting on the cable sheath. An added advantage of using coloured tape is that the cables can be identified from across the room...

The TestNET is a handy Ethernet checker. If you have a CAT5 socket which in theory should have Ethernet, but you are not sure, you can quickly verify service, 10/100 MHz operation and whetehr duplex is supported with this product.

With the crossover cable supplied, it can easily be used for checking Network cards in PCs as well.