Wireless for Cyber cafe

For the past entry, i gave you some introductions and definition about wired and wireless networking technologies.

Now it is time to make some comparison between both of them. I will tell you from the beginning of the installation process to the conclusions. Please read it throughly.

Installation

For me, wired networking installation is a bit messy because you need a lot of wires and there are very long to manage. You also need ethernet adapter where the wire connect between your cyber cafe computers or your router. It also can be time-consuming and difficult to run cables on the floor or manage to hide it especially if you have computer sit in different rooms. Now, we are using CAT5 cables, it is new technology for wired cable networking, it make you networking process easier and minimizing unsightly cable runs.

For wireless networks, you just need a wireless router and wireless reciever adapter. Your internet broadband output mustbe connected to the wireless router and the reciever adapter must be installed to each of your computer. That's all you need.

Wireless LANs only work for certain range. If you buy wireless router only support 500 meter range, so that's it. If you want to gain more range you must upgrade your wireless router or buy a new router which support you desire range. It different to wired cables networking. You can make as wide range as you can as long as you have long cable. It's unlimited to space.

After hardware installation, the remaining steps in configuring either wired or wireless LANs do not differ much. Both rely on standard Internet Protocol and network operating system configuration options.

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Ocala: Raid on cyber café

Around 2 p.m. on Thursday agents entered Internet Express Cafe, located at 8810 SW SR 200. The business owner, James Blacketer Sr., was warned several weeks ago to cease operation immediately due to the ongoing illegal gambling activities. Blacketer did not comply with these orders and agents obtained a search warrant.
According to investigators, Internet Express Cafe was earning between $1,200 and $2,600 a day by operating the gambling house.
In total, 43 computer stations were confiscated from the business and one employee, Victoria Coons, 24, of Ocala, was arrested. Agents are also in the process of issuing a warrant for Blacketer's arrest.

Once robbed of a cyber cafè of Belpasso

Once robbed an internet point. Two robbers with their faces covered by ski masks, robbed a business have used internet point armed with pistols, a center bar bets via Rome to Belpasso.

The robbers, having raided in internet point, there has been delivered the entire collection of the day. To intimidate the two robbers have fired a gunshot at a window, then fleeing on board a car driven by a third accomplice. By the time I followed the research has only found the car that was on fire. The search of the Carabinieri Belpasso in conjunction with Paternò leave.

Bishop - Regulate internet café operations

The Most Reverend Aboagye Mensah, outgoing Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church, Ghana, has stressed the need for a legislation to regulate internet café operations in the country. He said the current spate of the misuse of internet facilities by the youth to engage in various criminal activities should be a concern to all. Speaking to newsmen in Kumasi after opening the 48th Annual Synod of the Kumasi Diocese of the Methodist Church on Thursday, Rev Aboagye Mensah said the misuse of the internet was breaking the morale fibre of society.
He said there was the need for a national policy to regulate the operations of cyber cafes to limit their patronage by the youth. He said Information and Communication Technology (ICT) was a necessity in the current global world but if care was not taken, its use could be disastrous to the Ghanaian society. Rev. Aboagye Mensah said most Ghanaian youth were using the internet to engage in fraudulent activities, occultism and illicit sexual activities among other things that were very dangerous to the future leadership of the country. He said internet café operations should not be seen only as business avenues for profit making but a means to increase access to information and promote national good. Rev. Aboagye Mensah appealed to the youth to use their energies positively and not to allow themselves to be deceived by worldly materials. He said the Methodist Church had embarked on a programme to instil good moral values in the youth. Right Reverend Professor Emmanuel Kwaku Asante, Presiding Bishop elect of the Methodist Church, Ghana told the synod that they were called to rescue the perishing, provide for the poor and guard the rights of the weak. Speaking on the theme; “Be Your Brothers Keeper,” he said it was important for members to put their prejudices and preferences aside and care for one another. Rt. Rev. Asante said in order to be an effective instruments of change, it was essential that members displayed compassion for one another adding, “growth and positive change demand active participation in the lives of others”.
He called on Christians to embark on projects of rehabilitating their brothers and sisters who had served terms of imprisonment.

Source: GNA

Cyber cafes thrive on job hunters

DOHA: The global economic gloom has come as a blessing in disguise for many cyber cafes in the city as more and more people are frequenting them, mainly to forward their resume for jobs. If trade sources are to be believed, a vast majority of those coming to the cafes are those who have come to Doha having lost their jobs in Dubai, Manama and other major cities in the GCC region. The visitors are staying with friends and relatives here and are desperately looking for placement, an official from an Internet cafe told this newspaper yesterday asking not to be named. He did not want the name of his outlet to be mentioned either.
“Our interaction with most customers suggests they are outsiders and have been attracted here since they know that Qatar has not been affected by the global recession as much as other Gulf states have been,” said the official. “From their faces, too, we can tell that they are outsiders, for we have regular local clientele and most of them we know personally.” According to another cyber cafe official, their business has grown by no less than 10 percent since the onset of the global recession and most people frequenting it walk in with flash drives wanting print-outs of their resume to produce at interviews for jobs. The rate per hour for using the Internet in most cafes across the city is QR5, but they charge QR1for each print-out. “We are now getting about a 100 customers a day on average. The number was slightly less until late last year, when the economic gloom began spreading its tentacles,” said the cafe official. He confirmed that most of those wanting print-outs of their resume were Indians, Filipinos and Lebanese, who have arrived here from other GCC cities after having lost their jobs due to cost-cutting measures adopted by their employers.

Online tax services offer cyber cafes a lifeline

Cyber café operators stand a chance to widen their revenue stream by tapping into the government’s initiatives of providing services online. The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) and Ministry of Immigration have come up with systems where people can track on Internet or through mobile phones the progress of applications for documents like passports. The initiatives offer the cyber cafes opportunity to draw more customers, who are expected to start using the services in efforts to reduce travel costs and enjoy better services. In an effort to ensure the cyber café operators were conversant with the KRA forms and the system, the taxman will start training operators from tomorrow. The authority intends to put a toll-free line that the operators will use to handle queries associated with the new system. Mr Kennedy Wanyonyi, the deputy commissioner at KRA, said the training will be spread across the country beginning next week. “We intend to provide basic skills on how the operators can assist their clients fill in the forms,” said Mr Wanyonyi. Some of the forms people can work on online are the Value Added Tax forms and the Personal Identification Number (PIN). According to latest statistics from Communications Commission of Kenya, the country has 3.3 million Internet users. Cyber cafés offering assistance have been asked not to charge extra fees. In an advertisement, KRA said it had “not prescribed any fees to be paid by cyber café for accessing KRA online services,” adding the businesses would be expected to stick to their regular rates. Most operators told Business Daily they welcomed the idea of training but asked KRA to make the system user-friendly. Richard Kariuki a technician at Cyberdome along Kimathi street, said the agency had to improve on speed. “If they improve on speed, it will make more money and they will be able to serve more people in a short time. It is a win-win situation” said Kariuki.

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