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Valentine’s Day and the Online World

Valentine’s Day and the Online World

HAPPY VALENTINES'S DAY!!!   Valentine’s Day has been celebrated for centuries. But in recent years, technology has had a major impact on how people express their love and affection. From sharing messages and gifts to video calls. Virtual dates and technology have...

What is Wi-Fi & How does it work?

What is Wi-Fi & How does it work?

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! WELCOME TO THE FIRST BLOG OF 2025!   Ready for a little education about WiFi and how it works? Good, then we'll begin... WiFi(Wi-Fi) is a wireless LAN standard, part of IEEE 802.11, for communication among different devices. It is a kind of...

Merry Christmas from Maximum Networks

Merry Christmas from Maximum Networks

IT'S CHRISTMAS!!! Ah, we can hear Noddy saying it out loud. With the Festive period upon us, we would like to take this opportunity to wish our clients and partners that continue to support us, A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! With 2025 around the corner, we...

How technology has reshaped Christmas

How technology has reshaped Christmas

IT'S CHRISTMAS... ALMOST!!! Christmas, a beloved tradition for many families around the world, which has held a special place in the hearts of Christian families since the 9th Century, has now become a universal tradition, allowing different cultures to adopt the...

Power in Technology

Power in Technology

BACK IN MY DAY... Virtually everything we do currently relies on one form of energy or another. Let’s go back to the basics. Back in the old days, coal was mined for put in fireplaces and to power the steam engines. Then we had gas to light the street lamps and...

Wireless (Wi-Fi) Technology

Wireless (Wi-Fi) Technology

DID YOU KNOW... Fact of the Day: Wi-Fi is defined as: “Wireless local area network (WLAN) products that are based on the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) 802.11 standards.” We've all done it before, been on the phone to our internet provider...

The 2G and 3G Switch-Off

The 2G and 3G Switch-Off

ITS ALL 3G IF YOU ASK ME... It's not just the PSTN network that has its planned switch-off in 2025. Alongside this, the mobile networks have also been planning the switch-off of all 2G and 3G mobile phone services. Whilst the vast majority of mobile phone users now...

VoIP and SIP: What’s the difference?

VoIP and SIP: What’s the difference?

IN THE BEGINNING... Since around 2008, wherever possible, transmitting voice services over an Internet connection* (rather than an analogue / PSTN or digital / ISDN phone line) has been in testing within the industry with clients and customers who were asked to be...

Keeping your tech cool

Keeping your tech cool

STAYING COOL KEEPS YOUR TECH RUNNING The world is experiencing different weather conditions at different times of the year due to climate change, which means we have to adapt not just ourselves but also how we look after our day-to-day technology to keep it working in...

Technology: Staying ahead of the game

Technology: Staying ahead of the game

WILL IT HELP OR HAMPER? The first rule of technology purchases – will it help or hamper your business? You may be thinking – how can a new system hamper your business? Believe it or not, the biggest mistake is actually in Voice Telephony and Internet services or VoIP...

Christmas is coming

Christmas is coming

THATS RIGHT... We are rapidly closing on the time of year when we should all be preparing to wind down, make plans for the Christmas vacations, a time with families and friends. It is a time to have fun and laughter and buy something special for our loved ones, big or...

Wired or Wireless?

Wired or Wireless?

BACK IN THE DAY... Back in the day all routers where designed for one function….bringing the broadband to life at a single point of entry. There would usually be one port to wire your computer into and that was that, internet access. Fast forward to now and every...

Are Your Documents and Emails Safe?

Are Your Documents and Emails Safe?

DO YOU RECOGNISE THAT EMAIL ADDRESS? Are you aware, that when you receive an email from someone you recognise, that it might NOT be from who you think it is? There are, on average, over three billion fake emails sent around the world, every single day! There are many...

The risks of Ransomware to your business

The risks of Ransomware to your business

RANSOMWARE IS OUT THERE Every week, more and more reports of hackers getting into networks, stealing data and/or encrypting data and holding the business, company or organisation to ransom. The main way of infiltrating is still through phishing emails and planting...

Planning ahead for the 2025 Switch-Off

Planning ahead for the 2025 Switch-Off

IT'S ALMOST OCTOBER 2024... Everyone needs to be prepared for the December 2025 Switch off.   If you are running your business on any of the following systems, then there is a 99% that the type of phones you have are PSTN / ISDN – based on Openreach’s legacy...

Choosing Maximum Networks as your Specialists

Choosing Maximum Networks as your Specialists

WHAT IS CONVERGENCE?     The word derives from the Telecoms and IT worlds colliding and merging (or converging) into one platform and infrastructure, known as Internet Protocol (IP). IT infrastructure has mainly worked on IP from the early days of networking...

Not all fibre is the same

Not all fibre is the same

SO FIBRE IS FIBRE... RIGHT? Over ten years ago, Openreach started to upgrade its infrastructure by the addition of fibre from the exchange to the green cabinets in the street (fibre-to-the-cabinet / FTTC) which gave us an increase from 24Mbps (21CN) to between 40 and...

Staying Secure in a World Full Of Acronyms

Staying Secure in a World Full Of Acronyms

WHAT DOES IP STAND FOR? We live in a world full of acronyms – or so it seems! IP can mean Internet Protocol - i.e. the standard coding technology that allows all connected devices from your computer to Voice calls over Internet Protocol (VoIP) to the millions of...

Prepare for 2025 Switch Off with VoIP

Prepare for 2025 Switch Off with VoIP

The 2025 SHUTDOWN IS GETTING CLOSER, ARE YOU READY? In 2025, BT will conduct major changes to its services, as a result permanently shutting down ISDN and traditional PSTN services. This means that some existing phone systems will not work past this date. Over 2...