New Mexico's Expert Internet Service Provider since 1994

If you have the need for speed, Southwest Cyberport’s got you covered.  But at SWCP, we go way beyond bandwidth. Our tech experts provide personalized services and support  to thousands of New Mexicans. We also offer state of the art web-publishing services and other web-services for small businesses and homes as well as commercial enterprises large and small.

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SWCP sponsors Ideas and Coffee, a comfortable coworking space conveniently located across the hall from our main office.  It is a clean, quiet space for entrepreneurs and other independent workers  to  meet clients and associates or work online, with fast internet connections, coffee and all the other office amenities  needed to succeed.

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Here in this blog you can find helpful articles on security, how to avoid spam and other pitfalls, and interesting tidbits about the Net as well as our staff and member community. Plus, there’s an archive of issues of our monthly newsletter, the SWCP Portal, which has longer and more in-depth pieces on the past, current, and future state of the Internet.

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Apple Ushers in Sea Changes to the PC Industry

By Mark Costlow, SWCP President Adapted and updated from the SWCP Portal, January and February 2021 In a move that was largely unnoticed outside tech circles, Apple recently introduced a new range of laptops using their own CPU chips. Called Apple Silicon, the current...
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What Cellphone Generation Numbers Mean

Technical jargon can often be confusing to ordinary users, and with all the hype surrounding mobile telephones can particularly dizzying. Advertisers nowadays talk excitedly about “5G” and how that is superior to “4G”, for instance, as if everybody understands exactly...
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Radioactive Diamond Power

One sure indicator that we are living in the future is that proposed or brand-new technologies often sound right out of science fiction. In a world of jetpacks, laser cannons, rockets that land upright, self-driving trucks, talking robot assistants and virtual...
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August 30, 2020 – nationwide global internet outage

We don't have a lot of details yet, but CenturyLink is suffering a nationwide internet outage at the moment.  Not all sites are down, some are fine, some are intermittently reachable, some not at all.  Our local connections in Albuquerque are fine, but connections are...
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A Small Bit of Good News

You may notice your Internet service bill is smaller this month. The Internet Tax Freedom Act (ITFA) was first enacted in 1998. It directed states not charge sales tax for Internet access. There was a grandfather clause which allowed states which were already taxing...
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