Syscom Networking

At Lingarajapuram 122, Syscom Networking is where we deal with all the bits and pieces that keep the internet running for people around this part of town. The shop is a bit of a mess with coils of blue and yellow LAN cables lying everywhere. We have routers sitting on the shelves and a few old computers we use for testing things when they come in. Most of the time, we are out at someone's house or a small office trying to figure out why their connection is dropping. When we are in the shop, we’re usually crimping connectors or checking if a modem is fried from a power surge. It’s a lot of technical stuff but we try to keep it simple when explaining to people what went wrong. The walls are covered with various tools and a calendar that’s a few months out of date. We have a small workbench where we solder things or try to fix a broken port on a switch. It’s not a very big team, just a couple of us who know our way around a network. Sometimes we’re up on a ladder in the rain trying to fix a wire that got snapped by a falling tree branch. It’s just regular work, nothing special about it. We grab a coffee when we can and just keep going until all the service calls are finally done.