Archive for the 'Usefull Network Info' Category

What is a Torrent – All about the Torrent Protocol

Sunday, January 25th, 2009

A Torrent is a peer-to-peer technology that uses small files containing information about a specific (usually large) file. This information is about the users having the file, and essentially plays the role of liaison between users. The size of torrent files is very small and has an extension of .torrent. The protocol used to exchange [...]

Ethernet Network Cable – Cat5 – Cat5E – Cat6

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Ethernet cables are the most common network cables you will encounter. All networked devices on a Local Area Network (LAN), such as your PC, a network printer, a networked copy machine, a Server (Windows or Unix) etc use an Ethernet Cable to communicate with the rest devices on the network. Ofcourse, each of these devices [...]