Having an accustomed environment encircle you can exude reassuring emotions of safety and keep you in a state of tranquillity and composure… unlike this sentence. That is why safe mode can be such a great tool to use and see from an IT perspective. In the past week I’ve had to resort to using safe […]
Click on a link that you want to open and you find yourself on the bad side of the internet staring at pop ups, free prescription medicine and critical security warnings?… Looks like you have a browser hijack. Usually I get to work on a Friday ready to have a good finish to the working […]
Cloud computing services is one of the most important thing happening in MSP’s. Traditionally, users rely on applications that run directly or locally on the hardware, Compute/Storage/Networking, of their organization running in some On-Premises Data Center. This type of infrastructure is one in use all over the world today. Cloud computing changes it by running […]
The big news this week is that DisplayPort has officially ousted the aging but very handy VGA display interface. Up until this week all the PC’s, workstations and servers we had sold or configured for our customers came with a VGA display port among other display options… but not anymore. We had shipped our first […]
Yealink W52P DECT cordless phone Thanks to our partners at 3CX and Alloy, we were given the opportunity to test a Yealink W52P DECT cordless phone for the past few weeks and document our findings. As this is our first on hands product review I will try and be impartial and truthful about our […]
One of the first laptops that I ever used was small, blocky in design, had a rubber pointer, had small TFT screen and would get hot enough to quite literally warm up my room in winter. We have come far in mobile computing. I have noticed a trend over the past 2-3 years. Many of […]
In the world of IT the continuing trend is to go smaller, lighter, virtualised and to the cloud. The Dell Wyse Thin Clients are a piece of kit that will continue to give this directional trend a lot of incentive and life in the years to come. Wyse is a developer and manufacturer of “Cloud […]
One of our Security and Anti-Virus solutions available to our customers is a much lauded and awarded product called Bitdefender. We at A&STech take customer security and discretion very seriously and therefore offer many different solutions to Viruses, Hackers, Firewall, Cracks, Malware, Spyware and other security threats. Bitdefender is one of our solutions that we […]
A few months back we did a brief overview of NAS devices, but today we will look at a particular model that we use extensively both in house and for our customers, the Synology DiskStation DS1813 NAS. Synology is a Taiwanese organization that specialises in all types of NAS devices for home, business and enterprise […]
The Netcomm NB6 Router is A&STech’s go to replacement and emergency router. We have plenty in our stock and emergency kits for those moments you need a reliable and fail safe ADSL2+ router. Like all IT service providers, there are times when you get that call that internet is down for a whole site. Among […]
