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Hi Hope this isn't in the wrong forum. Can someone recommend a good supplier for shielded cat5 cable (ftp) Just need 1 box and my usual suppliers are quoting silly money. TIA

Hi Does anybody know if it is possible to get an 8 port gigabit switch which has a fiber port on the back of it. I need to link to small offices and would like to have both on gigabit using an existing multimode fiber which goes between the two buildings. Dont want to use a seperate media...

Hi I am a VPN newbie so please excuse if this is a obvious question. I have two offices with one PC at each and a network hard drive at one of them. I would like to link the sites to allow both PC's to access the network hard drive. I have picked up 2 x Netgear DG 834's and looked at the vpn...

I think the problem is Dos doesn't understand what a USB port is. Could you try with a serial to usb adaptor??

I use VNC to connect to lots of different PC's which are used as CCTV systems. Is there a way i can have a shortcut on my desktop which will log me straight into a particular PC? Thanks in advance

Hi all I have a couple of clients who use a buffalo linkstation to store and share their files. There is a folder which i'd like to restrict using the buffalo's access restrictions. We do not have a server. I run into a problem as the xp usernames are longer than the buffalo user names allow...

Good Morning, I have been asked to quote for some ups's for a client. In the server room they have 2 - 24 port switches, a server, and a telephone system. Then downstairs there are two fax machines, and 10 thin clients with 17" crt monitors. I assume the fax machines will need less power than...

Hope this is the correct forum!!! I have a problem with an office set up. Basically i am trying to let pc's from the internet to access a pc which is on the company internal LAN through a web browser. To do this i would normally simply connect to the router and forward ports...

I am planning to upgrade my xp pro machine. With new motherboard, procesor, memory, the works The only parts i will be keeping is the hard drive. Previous attempts to change motherboards on xp machines has given me real problems with the system not booting / needed reinstalling in the end...

So i would ftp into the router? From the command prompt of any pc on the lan i'd type telnet 10.0.0.? How do i find its ip address. The machines in the lan use 10.0.0.1 as a gateway but this is the ip of the server, so obviously the win2000 server must deal with sending the internet requests...

I have experience of using cheap routers such as D Link where you configure via the browser. I need to configure port forwarding on a cisco 800 series router. The purpose of this is when people go to the external ip address of the router from out side of the lan, ie on the internet. i want the...

I have a machine running XP pro, whenever i try to access the CD / DVD drives it takes forever. The whole machine slows until the disc is read. sometime si cannot eject the drives. I have tries changing the IDE cable and unplugging each of the drives but the problem remains. The system event...

I have tried this. But the updates reinstall after a few days and back to square one. I do not want to switch off auto updates

After XP automatically updated itself with some updates the next reboot when i tried to log in i was greeted with a message as follows. The system cannot log you on due to the following error The program issued a command but the command length is incorrect Please try again or consult your...

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