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How to Make Cat 5 / 5e Patch Cables DIY article. All the information you should need to build straight through Cat 5 Patch Cables and Crossover Cat 5 Patch Cables.

Learn what American wire gauge is and how it relates to cabling.

Within this How To article we have included all the information you should need to find the materials, tools, and info on how to build straight through Cat6 Patch Cables and Crossover Cat 6 Patch Cables.

Within this DIY article we have included everything you will need to find the materials, tools, and info on how to build coaxial patch cables.

How to Punch Down Keystone Jacks - Materials - Step by Step instructions with detailed photos guide you through the process easily.

A quick and easy guide showing the difference in Straight-through, Crossover, and Rollover wiring of cables and the intended use for each type of cable

How to Terminate Fiber Optic cable - Step by Step instructions to guide you through the process easily.

Find out how an HDMI Splitter works and how it can help with many different projects.

The Vivid AV™ USB to HDMI Adapter is an incredibly simple and effective way to add an additional monitor to your laptop, netbook or desktop computer without the need to upgrade the video cards or software.

Find out what the different HDMI cables do and which one is right for your application.

Networx™ CAT5e Splitter will allow you to run 2 active network connections using a single CAT5e cable. Networx™ CAT5e Splitter allows you to run 2 active connections over a single cat5e cable by splitting the pairs into 2 separate connections.

What is Category cable and what are the differences between CAT5e, CAT6, CAT6a?

CCA cable is an acronym for Copper Clad Aluminum cables. CCA wire uses an aluminum conductor that is coated with copper. This process incurs less cost of manufacturing on the part of the company and thus a higher profit during the sales.

Guide to using coaxial cable and to help make a decision on which type of coaxial cable should be used for a particular installation.

A fiber optic media converter is a straightforward networking device which is utilized to create a connection in-between two dissimilar media types such as twisted pair with fiber optic cabling; connecting copper to fiber and fiber to copper.

This handy guide will walk you through the basics of computer networking so you can get an understand of the terms that get thrown around.

A business, be it a small or a large one needs some type of networking in every tier. Be it in the export, import or marketing sector, the individuals in a company need to be networked and connected to each other in some way or the other. This increases both order as well as efficiency of the working system.

Client server network architecture is a very popular model for computer networking that utilizes both client and server devices each designed for a set utilization. This client server model can be used as a local area network (LAN) or on the internet. Some familiar examples of a client server system on the internet are file transfer protocol clients (FTPs), Web servers, Web browsers and DNS.

Peer to peer is an approach to computer networking where all computers share equivalent responsibility for processing data. Peer-to-peer networking (also known simply as peer networking) differs from the previously described, client-server networking, wherein some devices have the responsibility of providing or 'serving' data and other devices consume or otherwise act as 'clients' of those servers.

A network protocol is a catalogue of rules and conventions for communication between various networking devices. All protocols for networking of computers utilize the prevalence of packet switching techniques to both send and receive messages in the form of packets.

Composite video is the format of an analog television (picture only) signal before it is combined with a sound signal and modulated onto an RF carrier.