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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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 [...]

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Google Kansas in, Topeka Out: The Capital City of Fiber Optics?

March 5, 2010

When Google announced plans for a groundbreaking fiber optic network that would offer broadband speeds of up to 1 Gbps directly to consumers, it turned more than a few heads.  Google did not announce exactly where this network would be, and they were rather vague as to how many customers it would serve only offering [...]

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TiVo Premier: TiVo Takes Their Game to The Next Level

March 3, 2010

TiVo has long since been a mainstay in the home theater arena, but their new release looks to take things up a notch or ten.  Dubbed TiVo premier, the new version of TiVo includes some serious software tweaks and even some new hardware such as an eSata port and large internal hard drives.  And, yes, [...]

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Is Internet Censorship Inevitable?

March 1, 2010

One of the best things about the Internet is that it allows virtually everyone with a connection to have a voice, or almost everyone.  Anyone who happens to live in a country with very strict Internet censorship guidelines may find that their voice is not welcome and that they may be cut off from the [...]

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100 Mbps Broadband For All by 2020?

February 26, 2010

Broadband services have a way of leapfrogging each other in small increments.  One providers offers 10 Mbps downstream speeds and 2 Mbps upstream speeds, and another comes out with a 12 Mbps/3 Mbps plan.  The recession seems to have slowed this trend, and some cities have not seem the fierce competition that parts of California [...]

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Windows Phone Series 7 Coming Soon

February 24, 2010

At CES 2010 it was clear that the future of mobile devices is about to change course in a potentially game-changing way.  What was missing, and on the lips of many was the follow-up to Windows Mobile 6.5.  Unfortunately, no Windows Mobile update was unveiled at CES 2010, but you know what they say about [...]

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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 [...]