Services

Wired / Wireless Networking

Would you like to share your Broadband Internet connection between 2 or more computers? Share documents and files between your office computers? Maybe link two computers together to play LAN (Local Area Network) games? Or just be able to use the internet on your laptop anywhere in your house or garden without having to trail wires everywhere?

PC Care can network computers together and configure them to share internet connections, documents, files and peripherals such as printers using both wired LAN (Local Area Network) and wireless WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) technologies, or a mixture of both.

Not only will we install, configure and optimize your network, but will will make sure that your wireless network is completely secure by setting a WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) Key. Because a wireless network is constantly emitting a signal to anyone within its range, it is possible for other people to connect into your wireless network. What the WEP key does is block access to any computer that is not intended to be on the network, hence making it the equivalent to a wired network, which can only be connected to by a cable. By doing this you have the convenience of a wireless network connection but the solid security of a wired one.

Surprisingly when we are setting up wireless connections for our clients and surveying the local area for existing wireless networks, we frequently come across unsecured WLAN's. An unsecured WLAN, more or less allows a direct connection into the computers using it and can easily be exploited by fraudsters to obtain sensitive information, files and documents. We estimate that as many as 1 in 4 wireless networks in the areas we cover are unsecured. If you already have a wireless network but are concerned about security PC Care will happily show you how to secure your existing WLAN and apply a WEP key.