Wireless Broadband & Networking
Home Network -- We will recommend only the best routers from Linksys, Belkin, Netgear and D-Link to set up your home network. Whether you need a wired or wireless network, our professional networking technicians can set up your home to share a broadband internet connection like cable or DSL. Our technicians have business networking experience, so we can set up your computers to share printers, files, pictures, music, video and more. We can also ensure that your home network is secure, therefore preventing unauthorised access to your personal information. We offer our services locally in camberley, and a 18 mile radius including ascot, bagshot, binfield, blackwater, chobham, compton, crowthorne, deepcut, egham, eversley, farnham, farnborough, fleet, frimley, guildford, hartley witney, horsell, lightwater, laleham, normandy, pirbright, richmond, sandhurst, staines, sunningdale, sunninghill, tongham, thorpe, twickenham, warnborough, windlesham, windsor, virginia water, windsor, old windsor, winkfield, worplesdon, wokingham, woking, wraysbury, yateley
Broadband - We can help you set up your cable and ADSL broadband routers and modems. If you are still on dial-up we can recommend which broadband service would be best for you. And, the best part is, in most cases it is about the same price, or even a few pounds cheaper to switch from dial-up to broadband. We offer our services locally in camberley, and a 18 mile radius including ascot, bagshot, binfield, blackwater, chobham, compton, crowthorne, deepcut, egham, eversley, farnham, farnborough, fleet, frimley, guildford, hartley witney, horsell, lightwater, laleham, normandy, pirbright, richmond, sandhurst, staines, sunningdale, sunninghill, tongham, thorpe, twickenham, warnborough, windlesham, windsor, virginia water, windsor, old windsor, winkfield, worplesdon, wokingham, woking, wraysbury, yateley
Wireless routers and Wifi Access Points - If you have a large home, or and older home with "thick" walls, you may experience issues getting reception from your wireless router in some parts of your home. We can easily solve this problem by installing a strategically placed access point or points within your house. These will relay your signal to give you a broader area of coverage and solve the issue of erratic wireless signals. We can carry out wifi surveys and solve internet problems and offer internet help and networking help by "scanning" the wifi frequency and checking for interference or other wifi networks transmitting on the same channel. We offer our services locally in camberley, and a 18 mile radius including ascot, bagshot, binfield, blackwater, chobham, compton, crowthorne, deepcut, egham, eversley, farnham, farnborough, fleet, frimley, guildford, hartley witney, horsell, lightwater, laleham, normandy, pirbright, richmond, sandhurst, staines, sunningdale, sunninghill, tongham, thorpe, twickenham, warnborough, windlesham, windsor, virginia water, windsor, old windsor, winkfield, worplesdon, wokingham, woking, wraysbury, yateley
Print Servers - If you wish to share your printer between all of your computers, one option is to install a wireless print server. In doing so, it connects your printer to the network instead of one computer, and makes it available to all computers on the network. Alternatively and a generally more reliable method is to use a printer within built in ethernet or NIC, and then attach to a switch or router and share the printer on the network. We offer our services locally in camberley, and a 18 mile radius including ascot, bagshot, binfield, blackwater, chobham, compton, crowthorne, deepcut, egham, eversley, farnham, farnborough, fleet, frimley, guildford, hartley witney, horsell, lightwater, laleham, normandy, pirbright, richmond, sandhurst, staines, sunningdale, sunninghill, tongham, thorpe, twickenham, warnborough, windlesham, windsor, virginia water, windsor, old windsor, winkfield, worplesdon, wokingham, woking, wraysbury, yateley
Mobile 3G PC Network Cards - You can purchase a mobile PC network card from your mobile phone provider for your laptop computer. This essentially allows you to get online with your laptop, from anywhere in the world. We can assist you in setting these up as well. We offer our services locally in camberley, and a 18 mile radius including ascot, bagshot, binfield, blackwater, chobham, compton, crowthorne, deepcut, egham, eversley, farnham, farnborough, fleet, frimley, guildford, hartley witney, horsell, lightwater, laleham, normandy, pirbright, richmond, sandhurst, staines, sunningdale, sunninghill, tongham, thorpe, twickenham, warnborough, windlesham, windsor, virginia water, windsor, old windsor, winkfield, worplesdon, wokingham, woking, wraysbury, yateley
Wifi and Wireless Broadband Info - WiFi a wireless-technology brand owned by the Wi-Fi Alliance, promotes standards with the aim of improving the interoperability of wireless local area network products based on the IEEE 802.11 standards. Common applications for Wi-Fi include Internet and VoIP phone access, gaming, and network connectivity for consumer electronics such as televisions, DVD players, and digital cameras. The Wi-Fi Alliance, a consortium of separate and independent companies, agrees on a set of common interoperable products based on the family of IEEE 802.11 standards. The Wi-Fi Alliance certifies products via a set of defined test-procedures to establish interoperability. Those manufacturers with membership of Wi-Fi Alliance and whose products pass these interoperability tests can mark their products and product packaging with the Wi-Fi logo. Wi-Fi technologies have gone through several generations since their inception in 1998. The Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X and open source Unix and Linux operating systems support Wi-Fi to different extents. A Wi-Fi-enabled device such as a PC, game console the PSP and PS3, cell phone, MP3 player or PDA can connect to the Internet when within range of a wireless network connected to the Internet. The coverage of one or more interconnected access points called a hotspot, can comprise an area as small as a single room with wireless-opaque walls or as large as many square miles covered by overlapping access points. Wi-Fi technology has served to set up mesh networks, for example, in London. Both architectures can operate in community networks. In addition to restricted use in homes and offices, Wi-Fi can make access publicly available at Wi-Fi hotspots provided either free of charge or to subscribers to various providers. Organizations and businesses such as airports, hotels and restaurants often provide free hotspots to attract or assist clients. Enthusiasts or authorities who wish to provide services or even to promote business in a given area sometimes provide free Wi-Fi access. Metropolitan-wide WiFi (Muni-Fi) already has more than 300 projects in process. Wi-Fi also allows connectivity in peer-to-peer (wireless ad-hoc network) mode, which enables devices to connect directly with each other. This connectivity mode can prove useful in consumer electronics and gaming applications. When wireless networking technology first entered the market many problems ensued for consumers who could not rely on products from different vendors working together. The Wi-Fi Alliance began as a community to solve this issue, aiming to address the needs of the end-user and to allow the technology to mature. The Alliance created the branding Wi-Fi CERTIFIED to reassure consumers that products will interoperate with other products displaying the same branding. Many consumer devices use Wi-Fi. Amongst others, personal computers can network to each other and connect to the Internet, mobile computers can connect to the Internet from any Wi-Fi hotspot, and digital cameras can transfer images wirelessly. Routers which incorporate a DSL-modem or a cable-modem and a Wi-Fi access point, often set up in homes and other premises, provide Internet-access and internetworking to all devices connected (wirelessly or by cable) to them. One can also connect Wi-Fi devices in ad-hoc mode for client-to-client connections without a router. As of 2007 Wi-Fi technology had spread widely within business and industrial sites. In business environments, just like other environments, increasing the number of Wi-Fi access-points provides redundancy, support for fast roaming and increased overall network-capacity by using more channels or by defining smaller cells. Wi-Fi enables wireless voice-applications ( VoWLAN or WVOIP). Over the years, Wi-Fi implementations have moved toward "thin" access-points, with more of the network intelligence housed in a centralized network appliance, relegating individual access-points to the role of mere "dumb" radios. Outdoor applications may utilize true mesh topologies. As of 2007 Wi-Fi installations can provide a secure computer networking gateway, firewall, DHCP server, intrusion detection system, and other functions Wi-Fi allows LANs to be deployed without cabling for client devices, typically reducing the costs of network deployment and expansion. Spaces where cables cannot be run, such as outdoor areas and historical buildings, can host wireless LANs. As of 2007 wireless network adapters are built into most modern laptops. The price of chipsets for Wi-Fi continues to drop, making it an economical networking option included in even more devices. Wi-Fi has become widespread in corporate infrastructures, which also helps with the deployment of RFID technology that can piggyback on Wi-Fi. Different competitive brands of access points and client network interfaces are inter-operable at a basic level of service. Products designated as "Wi-Fi Certified" by the Wi-Fi Alliance are backwards inter-operable. Wi-Fi is a global set of standards. Unlike mobile telephones, any standard Wi-Fi device will work anywhere in the world. Wi-Fi is widely available in more than 250,000 public hotspots and tens of millions of homes and corporate and university campuses worldwide. WPA is not easily cracked if strong passwords are used and WPA2 encryption has no known weaknesses. New protocols for Quality of Service (WMM) make Wi-Fi more suitable for latency-sensitive applications (such as voice and video), and power saving mechanisms (WMM Power Save) improve battery operation.
Router and Gateways-
A residential gateway (or home gateway), is a hardware device connecting a home network with a wide area network (WAN) or the Internet. The residential gateway provides port translation (NAT), allowing all the computers in a small network to share one IP address and Internet connection. The residential gateway may sit between the modem and the internal network, or a DSL or cable modem may be integrated into the residential gateway. A residential gateway often combines the functions of an IP router, firewall, multi-port Ethernet switch and WiFi access point. Residential gateways that include routing capabilities are converged devices and sometimes referred to as home routers or broadband routers with "broadband" in this case referring not to the router function but the Internet access function. Residential gateways are under standardization by the Home Gateway Initiative (HGI)
Residential gateways are often categorized according to the domestic device connectivity they incorporate. All residential gateways will provide, in addition, a single connection for the wide area network conection (WANC) or Internet (usually ADSL or cable). Some common differentiators in the market are as follows:
Some gateways provide routing (NAT) capabilities. They can be connected directly to an Ethernet switch or hub, have an IP address on the local area network (LAN), and will act as DHCP servers if required to allow multiple other devices to connect through them. These are usually described as routers. Being self-contained, they do not usually need drivers and are OS-independent (can be used with any operating system).
Other gateways, lacking this capability, are usually described as modems (or ADSL modems), and must be connected to a single device, or to a device which provides those capabilities separately, this might include a computer with internet connection sharing in operation, which takes the role of gateway to other devices on the local area network.
Routers are further differentiated by the local area connectivity provided. Options include on-board switches or hubs, to allow multiple Ethernet devices to be connected directly to the gateway, whilst others have a single Ethernet connector and must be connected to a separate hub or switch. Some include wireless networking capabilities, and the internal switch allows both wired and wireless devices to be connected.
A final category are those which can only be connected directly to a computer (usually via a USB connection externally, or by being designed as a PCI card internally), and therefore always act as modems. These are sometimes called USB modems or internal modems.
Quick guide to connectivity:
Gateway device can be used with Wireless devices ? router
Gateway device has multiple ethernet ports at the back ? router
Gateway device has USB but no ethernet ? modem
Otherwise ? see manufacturer's documentation
There are a number manufacturers of residential gateways including:
2Wire
3Com
Apple Inc. (termed AirPort Base Stations)
Asus
AVM_GmbH
Beetel
Belkin
Buffalo Technology
Billion
Check Point
Corecess
D-Link Systems
Draytek
Enterasys Networks
Funkwerk Enterprise Communications GmbH
Hawking Technologies
Huawei
inAccess Networks
Jungo
Lightning MultiCom
Linksys
Mikrotik
Motorola
NetComm
NETGEAR
PacketFront
Planex Communications Inc
Pivotal Networking
Sagem Communications
Siemens AG
Sitecom (Thomson)
SMC Networks
Speedtouch
Tellabs
TP-Link
U.S. Robotics
Verizon
Virtual Access
Zoom Telephonics
TRENDnet
ZyXEL
Home Networking Devices-
A home network may consist of the following components:
A broadband modem for connection to the internet (either a DSL modem using the phone line, or cable modem using the cable internet connection).
A residential gateway (sometimes called a router) connected between the broadband modem and the rest of the network. This enables multiple devices to connect to the internet simultaneously. Residential gateways, hubs/switches, DSL modems, and wireless access points are often combined.
A PC, or multiple PCs including laptops
A wireless access point, usually implemented as a feature rather than a separate box, for connecting wireless devices
Entertainment peripherals - an increasing number of devices can be connected to the home network, including DVRs like TiVo, digital audio players, games machines, and stereo systems
Internet Phones (VoIP)
A network bridge connects two networks together, often giving a wired device, e.g. Xbox, access to a wireless network.
(Rarely) a network hub/switch - a central networking hub containing a number of Ethernet ports for connecting multiple networked devices
A network attached storage (NAS) device can be used for storage on the network.
A print server can be used to share printers among computers on the network.
Older devices may not have the appropriate connector to the network. USB and PCI network controllers can be installed in some devices to allow them to connect to networks.
Network media-
Ethernet cables are the standard medium for networks. However, homes are often more difficult to wire than office environments, and other technologies are being developed which don't require new wires.
Home networking may use
Ethernet Category 5 cable, Category 6 cable - for speeds of 10 Mbit/s, 100 Mbit/s, or 1 Gbit/s.
Wi-Fi Wireless LAN connections - for speeds up to 248 Mbit/s, dependent on signal strength and wireless standard.
Coaxial cables (TV antennas) - for speeds of 100 Mbit/s (see Multimedia over Coax Alliance)
Electrical wiring - for speeds of 14 Mbit/s to 200 Mbit/s (see Power line communication)
Phone wiring - for speeds of 128 Mbit/s (see Home Phone Network Alliance)
Fiber optics - although rare, new homes are beginning to include fiber optics for future use. Optical networks generally use ethernet.
Ethernet and Wireless are the most common standards. As the demand for home networks has increased, the other alliances have formed to produce standards for networking alternatives.
Network devices may also be configured from a computer. For example, broadband modems are often configured through a web client on a networked PC. As networking technology evolves, more electronic devices and home appliances are becoming Internet ready and accessible through the home network. Set-top boxes from cable TV providers already have USB and Ethernet ports "for future use".
Do you provide computer networks, Wifi, Cat5/Cat5e/Cat6 installation and design services for Businesses?
Yes - We can design, install, test and maintain your network for any business with between 1 - 50 employees. We can configure, install and maintain your Microsoft servers too.
Telephone 0845 0558 159 or email at support@thepcpeople.biz
Standard coverage areas are Ascot, Guildford, Windsor, Woking, Camberley, Yateley, Bracknell, Wokingham, Crowthorne, Berkshire, Sunningdale, Binfield, Aldershot, Bracknell, Bray, Egham, Fleet, Chobham, Virginia Water, Woking, Datchet, Egham, Eton, Yateley, Guildford, Camberley, Crowthorne, Shinfield, Farnham, Sunningdale, Sunninghill, Compton, Mychett, Frimley, Lightwater, Bagshot, Windlesham, Longcross, Ash, Normandy, Warfield, Windsor, Winkfield, Winnersh, Wokingham, Wraysbury, Berkshire, Surrey, West London & Hampshire.
Please contact us if you are not sure if we cover your area.
