PC & laptop sales, upgrade and repair

Over time windows slows down and becomes inefficient and annoying to use. There are lots of reasons for it, some include:

* Fragmented and bloated registry
* Spyware, malware or virus infection
* Windows writes temporary files during its operation which need to be deleted periodically
* Fragmented disk drives
* Insufficient memory for currently installed applications

Windows gets updates and Service Packs, it's constantly changing. That computer with 256MB of memory ran XP lovely when it was bought, but XP has got 3 service packs and tons of updates since and now requires at least 1GB (1024MB) just to tick over smoothly with any program running.

Memory upgrades are one of the best ways to breath life into that PC. We will source the best hardware upgrades for your particular needs.

You can't run Windows safely without an anti virus. You need an anti virus that’s efficient, that does its job without interfering and you certainly don't want one that nags you. We will provide you with the latest, most efficient and cost effective anti virus solution.

Bring your PC or laptop to us and we will restore its running condition to the state it was in when you purchased it.

TV, home entertainment, gaming and home server systems

A Home Theater PC (HTPC) or Media Center is a purpose built computer intended as the hub of a household’s media needs. A HTPC is a fully functional computer that’s specifically designed to playback music, movies, TV shows, and videos. You can also surf the internet and play computer games. They can even get added digital video recording functionality with a TV tuner card. Also, since it’s an entertainment system, you can control the PC remotely with added peripherals. Our main aim when building a HTPC is to keep it small and keep noise down to a minimum.

A Media Server is a device that simply stores and shares media. One benefit of a media server is that you can store all of your music, movies, TV shows, and videos in the one place. Hide it in the attic or under the stairs. A media server can be setup with hard disk redundancy, where data is copied to more than one drive.  By placing data on multiple drives, I/O (input/output) operations can overlap in a balanced way, improving performance. With media servers any number of devices can be used as front ends, consoles, laptops, mobile phones etc.

IPTV stands for internet protocol television, which is a means of transporting Audio and Video (AV) and data information across a digital IP based network. This could include Ethernet LAN, internet, or WAN. AV sources can be streamed across existing networks to PCs or TVs with the addition of set top boxes (STB). IP Based TV technology can be one to many (Multicast) or one to one (Unicast). Multicast streams offer the most efficient form of transmission as the bandwidth can be shared amongst all of the users wishing to view that particular stream, if the stream is say 4Mbs only that amount of bandwidth will be used irrespective of the amount of viewers (provided the network is configured correctly). If the channel is not being viewed no bandwidth is consumed.

Contact us for a customised solution to your home or business media requirements.

IT services and support

Our main focus is to be the one stop shop for the technology needs of small to medium sized businesses in the West of Ireland. We specialise in helping with computer problems and IT support services. Our area of expertise encompasses media and entertainment, computer maintenance and repair, server client systems, wired and wireless networking, data protection and backup. Being small business owners themselves, Leet-Street understand the havoc technology can create – completely disrupting any other plans you had for your day, not to mention impacting on your sales, delivery, customer service and staff productivity. The need for a reliable and consistent IT support structure which will ensure IT continuity and trouble free operation of your computer systems is obvious.

We can tailor our services to suit your needs, whether you have 1 computer or 100, we can provice a quality, affordable, outsourced IT solution.

Discreet cabling, networking and wireless solutions

Wireless devices have limited range and loose signal through walls and obstacles. A wireless router should always be in the room its used most, I’ve mine in my sitting room behind the TV. Adding a more powerful wireless device can sometimes just make things worse, there's just no getting around a two foot thick wall. Sometimes its best to cable to the other computer, or even cable and add a second device the other side of the building to cover the uncovered areas.
We can evaluate each customers situation and assess whats needed for the best possible coverage.

Gamers talk about ping, ping refers to the network latency between a player's computer (or console), and either the game server or another client. Your ping is the number of milliseconds it takes for your device to send a signal to the server, and receive a resulting answer. Having a low ping is always desirable because lower latency provides smoother gameplay by allowing faster updates of the game data. As far as ping times go, the lower the better, 20 to 40 is good, but anything less than 75 is ok. Higher than 100, and you will start getting packet loss (data loss), and begin to cause lag for other players. Its best to connect gaming devices with an ethernet cable, wireless only adds more latency.

We can discreetly run cables from Your modem/router to individual devices to suit a customers needs.

Home security, IP cameras and wireless point to point links

IP cameras (Internet protocol) are CCTV (Closed-circuit television) cameras that use Internet Protocol to transmit image data and control signals over a fast network link. Cameras that do this are like webcams (which can only operate when connected to a computer), but the network camera has its own IP address, is connected directly to a network and can be placed wherever there is a network connection. An IP camera can be configured to send video for live viewing and/or recording.

Remote locations can be linked with a wireless point to point link consisting of two wireless transmitters. The range of a wireless link is determined by many factors. With clear line of sight and no interfering factors such as background noise, trees and buildings, they can work very reliably with end points 5-10km apart. Line of sight is very important, if you are unable to see one end of the link from the other it is likely that the link will not work very well, depending of course on what is in the way.

We can tailor build wireless links and customise security equipment to suit each customers requirements.

Data backup, protection and recovery services

Whether you're a home user or own a large business securing your data in today’s world is a must. One day you can be infected with a virus or your hard drive can just stop working. Online backup is where the valuable data on your computer is backed up to servers on the internet. In a disaster your data can be restored from the servers so that you have access to it again. We can provide solutions that allow You to go back in time and see your files and directories, as they were when your backups happened and schedule your backups to automatically run at a specific time, on a recurring basis.

Data recovery is the process of salvaging data from damaged, failed, corrupted, or inaccessible drives and media. Recovery may be required due to physical damage to the storage device or logical damage to the file system that prevents it from being mounted by the host operating system. All our data recovery work is carried out on a no recovery – no fee basis.

Broadband & VoIP configuration and diagnostics

VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) is simply the transmission of voice traffic over ip-based networks. VoIP has a lot of advantages over the traditional phone system. The main reason for which people are quickly turning to VoIP technology is the cost. VoIP is cheap, very cheap, but most people use it for free. There are many internet VoIP services available that you can just download and install on your pc or laptop, Skype, Google Talk, iChat, Msn. These even allow video calling if you have a webcam.

There are also SIP providers (Session Initiation Protocol) like Blueface.ie and Freespeech.ie who can give you a geographical phone number (01, 094, 098 etc) and offer unlimited calls for very little money. In both cases, a softphone (software program) must be configured to register with the SIP provider or a SIP-compatible phone or router are required.

There are numerous types of broadband:

• * Dsl through your phone line
• * Cable (mostly in the larger towns and cities)
• * Fixed wireless (needs line of sight)
• * Fibre (mostly for data centres and Isp backhaul)
• * 3G mobile from the mobile phone companies
• * 2 way satellite

These vary in quality, some are great, others are not so good and can't be depended on. A good connection will greatly benefit your family or business, a bad one will make you tear your hair out.

We can setup and optimise your local network for best quality VoIP services. We can also help with your broadband issues.

Training programmes to individual customer requirements

Want to learn about computers?

We offer a comprehensive range of computer training services provided by fully qualified IT training professionals. These courses can be tailored to meet your own needs and are delivered in groups or one to one basis. It is our passion to help you learn what you need to know about using and maintaining your own computers.

Web development and hosting services

A solid web presence is vital in today's marketplace. More and more customers are using the internet to search for goods and services. Are you missing out on vital sales to your competitors because of a non-existent or poorly designed website?

At Leet-Street we can vastly improve your business or organisation's visibility by providing a complete web development service.

We provide:

• * Web research (we investigate what your competitors are doing and how can we push your business one step further)
• * Design
• * Web hosting and domain registration services
• * E-Commerce solutions
• * We provide complete training packages for our content management installations

We will bring your web project, large or small, from research through to launch.
Contact us today for a tailor made package designed around your business needs.