The Internet Centre

The Internet Centre The Internet Centre is a Full-Service, Edmonton-based, IT infrastructure company

You bought a bag of a hundred RJ45 ends. Here's how not to waste half of them.Both pin orders are in the slides. Save th...
10/16/2026

You bought a bag of a hundred RJ45 ends. Here's how not to waste half of them.

Both pin orders are in the slides. Save this and pull it up next time you've got the crimper out.

Hold the plug clip down, gold pins up, cable pointing at you. Pin 1 is on the left.

T568B: white/orange, orange, white/green, blue, white/blue, green, white/brown, brown.

T568A: white/green, green, white/orange, blue, white/blue, orange, white/brown, brown.

Use the same order on both ends and you've got a straight-through cable, the kind used most often for patch cords. A on one end and B on the other makes a crossover.

Before you squeeze, look through the clear plastic and check the order one more time. That habit alone saves a lot of ends.

The full diagram for both standards, plus the crossover, is on our site:

incentre.net/go/cable-colors

10/14/2026

You paid for that server outright. Then you put it in the closet with the mop.

I get it, it has to live somewhere. But the expensive part is already bought. What it doesn't have is clean, redundant power, proper cooling, a real network connection, and somebody close by who can walk over to it when it stops answering. A space heater and a power bar don't count.

That's what a rack in our south Edmonton data centre is. It's still your server, you still own it and run it, it just lives somewhere built for it. And we've got space right now, in a building you can drive to and walk through before you commit to anything.

Tell me what you want to rack and I'll tell you what's free.

incentre.net/go/colocation

This one's just a thank you.To everyone who trusts us with their internet, their phones or their servers. Some of you si...
10/12/2026

This one's just a thank you.

To everyone who trusts us with their internet, their phones or their servers. Some of you signed up last month and some of you go back years, and you're the reason there's a team here in Edmonton picking up the phone.

Thanks too to the neighbours, the local businesses we work alongside, and the robotics teams building down the hall.

I hope the turkey's good, the drive is short, and nobody asks you to fix the wifi before dessert.

Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at The Internet Centre.

10/09/2026

Your number's on the van, the invoices, the sign out front and the Google listing. It's also attached to a building you're leaving.

It doesn't have to be. A hosted number lives on our network, not at your address, so moving the office doesn't mean moving the number. You take it with you, the calls keep landing, and nothing you've already printed goes stale.

Here's what that actually looks like. We move your existing numbers over, your team keeps their extensions and voicemail, and the phones register wherever you plug them in. The desktop and mobile apps ring too, which helps in the weeks where half the office is in the new space and half is still in the old one.

We do this for businesses across Canada and into the US, and the person who picks up when you call is on our team in Edmonton.

incentre.net/go/business-phone

You bought the mesh system and the dead spot just moved.Four things that are usually the real cause, before you spend an...
10/07/2026

You bought the mesh system and the dead spot just moved.

Four things that are usually the real cause, before you spend anything else on hardware:

1. The router is in the worst room in the house. Most get installed wherever the line comes in, which is often a basement corner behind the furnace. Moving it up a floor and out into the open beats any setting you can change.

2. The fast band has the worst reach. 5 GHz doesn't get through walls the way 2.4 does, so a far away device can keep dropping while your internet is perfectly fine.

3. Your neighbours are on your channel. In an apartment or a tight block there can be a dozen networks stacked on one channel. Your router picks a channel when it boots, so a restart in the evening sometimes lands you somewhere quieter.

4. It might not be the wifi at all. If everything slows down at once, including a device sitting on a cable, the wifi isn't the problem and the line into the building is.

That last one is the only one I can do anything about from here. Put in your address and see what's actually available where you live.

incentre.net/go/address

10/05/2026

You stopped telling your provider about the short outages a while ago. You restart the box, wait a minute, and carry on with your night.

Here's a five star review one of our customers left on Google in August, word for word:

"Great local company, and a fantastic alternative to the large vendors. Staff are easy to get a hold of, and I have not had a service outage in the years I've been with the company. Highly recommended"

That's Kevin's review, not our ad copy. It sits on a page we don't control and can't edit, which is why it's worth more than anything I'd write here.

We've been doing this in Edmonton since 1993. If you'd rather stop planning around your internet, start with your address and see what we can put in.

incentre.net/go/real-reviews

10/02/2026

Read the price guarantee. Then check which price it's actually guaranteeing.

Plenty of them guarantee the list price, not the discounted rate you signed at. So the promo runs out, the number on the bill goes up, and the guarantee is still sitting there intact. Nobody broke a promise to you. The promise was just written around the one part that was always going to move.

We publish one rate instead. Our 1 Gig home fibre is $80 a month, and the page says what the bill says, because there's no intro price underneath it waiting to expire.

Worth five minutes on your own provider's terms page tonight, whoever that is. And if you'd rather just see what's available on your street, that's here.

incentre.net/go/switching

September 30th is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.It's a day to remember the children who never came home ...
09/30/2026

September 30th is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

It's a day to remember the children who never came home from residential schools, and to think about the survivors, their families, and the communities still living with what it did.

We're an Edmonton company, on Treaty 6 territory and a traditional gathering place for many Indigenous peoples. Wearing an orange shirt is a small thing. Taking part of the day to listen, to read, or to go to something local is a bigger one.

From all of us at The Internet Centre.

09/28/2026

You signed the lease and somebody handed you an internet package along with the keys.

It happens in a lot of buildings, and most people assume that's just how living in one works. It isn't. The CRTC's position, going back to Telecom Decision 2003-45, is that you get to pick your own telecom provider no matter what kind of place you live in. There's a matching condition on our side of it too: a provider that wants to serve people in a building has to be able to reach them on a timely basis and on reasonable terms.

A deal between a building and one company doesn't take that choice away from you, though getting a different provider in can take some back and forth.

Whether we can actually reach your building is a separate question, and that one you can settle in about ten seconds.

incentre.net/go/address

09/25/2026

Internet from one company. Phones from another. Servers in a data centre you've never seen, and support that answers from somewhere else again.

That's a pretty normal setup for an Edmonton business, and it means four bills and four places to call when something breaks.

We run all of it here. Business fibre, business phones and colocation in our own Edmonton data centre, with a real person in the same city as your office when you need one.

If you're juggling four providers, send us your address and we'll show you what one local network looks like for your business.

incentre.net/go/bundle

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4130 – 95th Street NW
Edmonton, AB
T6E6H5

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Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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