Author Archives: Stu Kushner

Another milestone of Internet infrastructure is Internet fax services. It simplifies document management and enhances privacy. However, verify the services being offered carefully before you sign up with any fax online company. Certain services are limited to delivery of emails. This is a concern if you have to stay away from the office most of the time. It is important to have a stable Internet connection for you to access email or send and receive faxes on a regular basis.

Considerations in Internet Faxing

Internet fax allows users to review any fax message and attach a note when necessary.

Network cables are said to be the “arteries and veins” of the communications network. The cabled system is a highly consistent platform for setting up infrastructure since the connectivity is very reliable. It is also easy to troubleshoot. However, it is not really fail-safe. Cables can get warped and sometimes snagged in ceilings. The connectors can also get broken if they are pulled to hard at the wallplate.

It does not matter whether it is Cat5e or Cat6. Cat6 is considered a better choice although, for some, cost prohibitive. When you look at it,

Modern businesses are gradually shifting from the standard communication equipment to more modern systems like Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). VoIP services produce multiple benefits that can enhance your business and make you look good to existing as well as potential clients, and colleagues. Equipped with the proper technology, it is now less difficult to compete in a dog-eat-dog market. You can build a highly formidable presence in the web through Internet Protocol telephone systems. VoIP providers give you the highly developed features of PBX facilities which were accessible only to large corporations. These features include “Outlook integration” which allows users to click

A client was having serious connectivity and network issues. It was a very small business with just a few computers. But as they were working, a couple of the machines were losing their connection to the Internet. The problems and symptoms had been going on for over a year. They would lose Internet connection and they figured out that if they unplugged and replugged the network cable that the connectivity would usually come back. But sometimes, they would have to unplug and plug a few times to get connected. As you could imagine, this was incredibly frustrating for them.

Fortunately, we found and fixed the problem very quickly.

When network connections are flaky we always first look at the cabling and then the hardware and software. And since this was a network-wide problem, we had a strong feeling that they either had a cabling issue or a bad network switch.

In Figure 1, we took a photo of the connector that was going into the modem/router. If you look closely, you can see that the sleeve ends just short of the connector. This is so wrong. The sleeve needs to go inside of the connector so that it provides support and strain-relief to the 4 twisted pairs of wires. The wires would get bent at 90 degrees which changes the impedance and properties of the signal. Figure 2 is the inside of one of the wallplates. As you can see, the wires are untwisted and then punched into the slots for each of the 4-pairs. But they are untwisted too much.There should be no slack in between the sleeve and the connections. So, again, this will greatly reduce the effectiveness of the data transmission.

All cable connections and wallplates were checked and fixed. We cut off the bad connectors and recrimped on new ones. And we reterminated the wallplate. Since then, they have had 100% uptime on the Internet Service.

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