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Wireless Network Troubleshooting 101: Going Vanilla

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

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

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?

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?

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 [...]

Know Your DOCSIS: Get Up To Speed!

The term DOCSIS, itself an acronym for Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification, is something that many techies and broadband junkies talk about nearly endlessly, often in excited and/or argumentative tones. Since its initial release in 1997, DOCSIS has been better known as the technology behind cable broadband services. Different variants of the DOCSIS standard [...]

How to Cancel Your Cable Service

There are a handful of reasons why one might wish to cancel their current cable service. Perhaps the economic downturn and/or an unexpected emergency has left one reducing unnecessary expenses, a move might be in the offing, or perhaps there are better offerings from the competition. There may be other perfectly valid reasons as well, [...]

How to Switch High Speed Internet Providers

It is only a matter of time before consumers realize that their current broadband plan may not be all that they had hoped for, and start looking for something better. While 2 Mbps download speeds might have been top of the line performance a few short years ago, competition has raised the bar a great [...]

Wireless Technology Royal Rumble: 3G vs 4G vs WiMAX3G

There are many different wireless broadband technologies currently in use as well as poised for deployment in the near future. The big question is: which of these technologies is the best for any given consumer? The answer depends a lot on the needs of any particular consumer, but taking a look at the top three [...]

Choosing a Wireless Internet Service Provider

Thanks to recent innovations in technology, wireless internet access is now readily available in laptop computers, PDAs and even cell phones. Emerging variations such as EV-DO and WiMax have helped wireless connectivity evolve into one of the most dominant forms of broadband internet access. With the increase in speed, you are no longer restricted to [...]