Commercial Outdoor WiFi AP Deployment with Shielded Ethernet Cat6 Cabling
Mar 23, 2023

Commercial Outdoor WiFi AP Deployment with Shielded Ethernet Cat6 Cabling

Outdoor commercial installations come in all shapes and sizes. No two are exactly alike. The title of this blog might...
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How to: Terminate a Cat6A Shielded Field Term Plug
Mar 16, 2023

How to: Terminate a Cat6A Shielded Field Term Plug

Is it a RJ45 connector plug or a tool-less keystone jack? We have a potential personality disorder going on here!...
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When Lightning Strikes! Ethernet Data Cable and Lightning Protection
Mar 08, 2023

When Lightning Strikes! Ethernet Data Cable and Lightning Protection

You can’t stop lightning. When the difference in electrical potential energy between the clouds and the ground becomes great enough,...
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Helpful Tips to Maximize ROI in Fiber Optic Networks
Feb 07, 2023

Helpful Tips to Maximize ROI in Fiber Optic Networks

This guide explores five key tips for maximizing ROI in fiber optic networks, including forward planning, flexible network architecture, utilizing...
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Advanced Residential and Small Business Physical Ethernet LAN Setup
Dec 15, 2022

Advanced Residential and Small Business Physical Ethernet LAN Setup

I have written much about the individual phases of working with Ethernet cable, such as how to terminate a keystone...
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Terminating Cat6A Shielded Direct Burial Ethernet for Performance
Jul 28, 2022

Terminating Cat6A Shielded Direct Burial Ethernet for Performance

4K HDBASE-T and 10G Internet over coaxial is here, and you should be ready for it! Up until now, our...
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How To:  Terminating a Cat6-6A Standard Load Bar Unshielded RJ45 Connector
Jul 07, 2022

How To: Terminating a Cat6-6A Standard Load Bar Unshielded RJ45 Connector

This combined video and written blog will show you how to put on one of the most easy to terminate...
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Future Proofing Your Network for 10G Internet
Jun 30, 2022

Future Proofing Your Network for 10G Internet

Get ready for it! A recent discussion with a ComCast installation technician revealed some rather interesting news. ComCast, along with other...
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Terminating Pass-Through RJ45 Connectors onto Solid Copper Ethernet Cable  --  A Really Bad Idea?
May 26, 2022

Terminating Pass-Through RJ45 Connectors onto Solid Copper Ethernet Cable -- A Really Bad Idea?

A question that keeps coming up is “Do pass-through RJ45 connector plugs not work as well as the standard solid...
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