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Femtocell: The Future of Wireless Broadband?

July 23, 2010

Femtocell is quickly becoming a buzzword in the mobile space, and it also impacts wireless data users one way or another. Basically, femtocell is a term used to describe a small base station or a signal strengthener/repeater, but there are many factors to consider other than just the technical ones when it comes to femtocell. [...]

Securing non-PC Devices on Your Network

June 14, 2010

While there have been products designed to help users secure their computers for years now, these same products are now proving insufficient to meet the challenges of a new age. It is not that the products are not good, because they generally are. Nor is the problem such that malware has become a serious business, [...]

Internet and Computer Optimizers: Junk or Gold?

April 19, 2010

Internet optimizers and computer optimizers both offer promises that sound tantalizing: optimize a network connection and rid a computer of problems that might be plaguing it. Similar promises, at least on the Internet performance side of things) have been made by high performance network cards and expensive routers, but reviews of such products often show [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Wireless Network Troubleshooting 101: Going Vanilla

March 7, 2010

The average wireless network can be both a blessing and a curse at the same time. On one hand, it is often possible to connect everything from laptops, Skype phones, and even set top boxes (STBs) to a single wireless network. This enables sharing of resources such as files on computers, NAS boxes, countless digital [...]

Measuring Broadband Performance

February 22, 2010

One of the best things about signing up for the latest and greatest broadband service is the speed, but how can one really measure the speed of their broadband connection? After all, is there really a difference between a 15 Mbps per second DSL connection and the performance offered by a 15 Mbps cable modem [...]

Power Line Broadband 101: An Overview

January 24, 2010

Broadband services are lucrative in and of themselves, but ancillary services that can ride on top of data such as digital cable and digital telephone services push broadband over the top. Is it any wonder then why telecoms and cable companies, once organizations with exclusive offerings, are not competing with each other in markets across [...]

Wireless Broadband: Is it the Future?

January 22, 2010

There has been a lot of talk about metal wiring slowly fading into the living memory of the broadband dictionary, primarily because metal wiring has physical characteristics that ultimately limit its performance as a transmission medium. Fiber optics are a very viable solution to replace metal wiring, but many have questioned whether or not wireless [...]

Satellite Broadband: Is It a Viable Option?

January 19, 2010

Broadband comes in many forms, and different broadband service providers use an array of wildly different technologies, but the problem is that not everyone lives in a densely populated area where DSL and/or cable-broadband services are readily available. In such areas there are only a few alternative forms of broadband services to choose from, but [...]

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