Audio cables are what allow you to hear what’s happening from a source device. For example, if a computer is producing music, you won’t be able to hear it at all unless you use some kind of audio connector to connect it to a device that can play it. This is besides computers that have […]

Broadband internet access is used in the vast majority of internet enabled homes. It offers high speed access to the World Wide Web. A common issue faced by most of us is the need to run cabling around our homes to allow multiple devices access to the connection. The average home may have 3 or […]

Most of us who regularly use a computer know what an Ethernet cable is. But do you know what a Cat6 Ethernet cable is and why you would use one? Most ISP (internet service provider) companies supply modems as part of the package when you subscribe for your internet. But did you know these providers […]

After years working in the computer industry, a question I was frequently asked was. How do you connect two monitors to a computer that only has one VGA socket? The answer is not as straightforward as you may think. You can add a VGA graphics card that offers dual outputs, these can cost around sixty […]

USB (Universal Serial Bus) is the computer industry’s standard for connecting devices. It was developed in the mid 90’s. The first version of was USB 1.0, which was quickly upgraded to usb 1.1, this had data transfer speeds of 12 Mega bits per second. However this was too slow for some devices and a faster […]