From the monthly archives:

March 2010

U-Verse Now Offering 24 Mbps Across the Board

March 31, 2010

Broadband is making big news these days, and major players are doing all they can to grab headlines, such as AT&T’s announcement that 24 Mbps U-verse service is now available in all markets that AT&T serves. From the standpoint of consumers, there is absolutely nothing wrong with these sorts of announcements; in fact, these kinds [...]

U-Verse and FiOS Continue to Expand, Customers Rejoice!

March 25, 2010

A while back Verizon completed its first major FiOS deployment to all of its original target customers. There was a lot of speculation as to whether Verizon would try to bring their insanely fast broadband connections to consumers in other markets, and that question appears to be answered. Strangely enough, a similar question regarding the [...]

FCC Broadband Tests Results Are In: Round 1

March 23, 2010

The FCC Broadband Test is now officially live, with all forms of broadband being subjected to download and upload torture tests. Loyal High Speed Expert readers will probably note that broadband performance tests of all kinds are potentially flawed, but that does not necessarily make such tests irrelevant. Instead, it just means that the results [...]

YouTube a Great Reason to Get a Fast Broadband Connection

March 21, 2010

If you are relatively new to the Internet or just not very gregarious in a digital sense, then you may not have really explored YouTube. Whether or not the failure to explore YouTube should be considered a tragedy or a blessing depends on how social one is, as the experience is fundamentally that of a [...]

Google Leaving China

March 19, 2010

While HSE has covered the struggle between China and Google until it started to simmer, it looked like things were going to simmer for a while and never erupt. Sure, Google pulled out of a few key events in China, demonstrating that it cared little for the marketing opportunities, and the Chinese government issued a [...]

IPTV Continues to Make Headway

March 17, 2010

It is no secret that we here at High Speed Experts have an appreciation for IPTV, even though current implementations are often lacking in one way or another and still slightly flawed. It is clear that IPTV is the future and that IPTV may single-handedly redefine the role of cable providers, studios, and even broadband [...]

Wireless Network Troubleshooting 103: Cheating When Things Go Wrong

March 15, 2010

In the third portion of our wireless network troubleshooting guide, we will discuss topics that are a little bit beyond the scope of wireless network troubleshooting. Why? Because sometimes there is only so much you can do with existing situations, and investing additional money in new MIMO routers, high gain antennae, network cards, and all [...]

HSPA+ Details Emerge

March 13, 2010

HSPA+ might be one of the technologies that pushes wireless broadband adoption throughout the rest of 2010, but there seems to be a fair amount of concern about whether providers realize that yet. With 4G looming and HSPA+ only available in a handful of markets, it might seem as if carriers are simply uninterested in [...]

Wireless Network Troubleshooting 102: A Tale of Many Signals

March 11, 2010

Wireless network troubleshooting does not have to be as difficult and/or mystical as it might seem on the surface. High Speed Experts is here to answer common questions and provide some wireless network troubleshooting advice in our series first ever wireless networking guide. In the first installment of the official High Speed Expert wireless network [...]

Google’s Gigabit Broadband Creates Serious Waves

March 9, 2010

When Google announced their intentions to deploy a gigabit broadband service, the entire U.S. stood up and took notice, and for several good reasons. Gigabit connections would put the U.S. back in the driver’s seat, and there are countless applications that could benefit from incredibly fast broadband connectivity. Online backups, video on demand services, video [...]

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