Why is My Internet so slow? Blame FIFA?

08. July 2014 Internet Support 0
In today’s world where thousands of Internet ready devices (and demand for content), are being added monthly there is an ever increasing demand on our Internet access  – and ultimately on the providers supplying that demand. What usually ends up happening is congestion resulting in slow Internet speeds. Throw in a major event like the ...

Technology Showcase at Jericho Tennis Club July 17th

05. June 2014 Internet Trends 1
Join us for a summer evening at the beautiful Jericho Tennis Club. We will gather at 3 p.m. on July 17th at Jericho for three brief presentations. At 3:15, Ron Grant (Skyway West & Chair, VANIX Steering Committee) will give an overview of the inner workings of the Internet in the Harbour Center, the Western ...

What You Should do about The Heartbleed Bug

It has recently come to light that some versions of OpenSSL are vulnerable to an exploit called Heartbleed. OpenSSL is one flavour of security measures companies take to keep their information — which could be your information — secure from “bad guys”, who might want to collect it for illegal or questionable purposes. The Heartbleed ...

High Speed Cable Internet with ADSL and Failover

Skyway West is offering an Enterprise High Speed Cable Internet service that is bundled with Business ADSL and an Auto Failover.  This is perfect for any business that is taking advantage of Voice over IP (or VoIP), either connecting SIP trunks to their on-premise IP PBX or if they connect to a Hosted Phone System in ...

Skyway West Auto Failover Internet Service

Skyway West offers an Automatic Internet Failover Service, ideal for any BC or Alberta organization that sees the Internet as an important business tool.  Skyway’s Auto Failover Service is different than simply connecting a dual WAN router to your Local Area Network.  Many of these routers do a great job of detecting when one of ...