In choosing a network installer, you should ask candidates you're considering to provide references from other small businesses. Also get recommendations from other businesses similar to yours and industry associations and business groups. Other good sources of references for network installers are your ISP and the companies that designed your network and do maintenance on your computers. Also consider whether cables must be hidden or whether they can be left exposed. One reversed wire pair or one bad connector could lead to intermittent problems and long-term, expensive troubleshooting.
Switches are a higher-performance alternative to hubs.
A suite of communications protocols, or formats, used to interconnect Internet servers, or hosts. A series of computers and peripheral devices connected within a company. The service that allows a LAN server to answer calls from employees using a modem and a telephone line to call in from home or the road. Devices that connect LANs to the Internet or other LANs. A phrase that refers to the way in which devices on a LAN are connected.