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3D TV to Help Coax Hit 800 Mbps?

July 1, 2010

Fiber optics have been claiming the spotlight recently, but recent efforts by DSL providers are showing that metal wires are not entirely out of the race just yet. The latest news is that coaxial wires used to deliver digital cable services might soon be providing 400 to 800 Mbps of broadband performance. Is this is [...]

Defining 100% Fiber Optic

June 11, 2010

Time Warner Cable has recently lost a claim it filed with the BBB’s national advertising division. In the claim, Time Warner Cable says that Verizon’s use of the term ‘100% fiber optics’ is disingenuous, and a misrepresentation of the facts. We are going to explore these claims and the eventual outcome, but before we go [...]

Broadband Too Fast to be Safe?

June 6, 2010

One of the most common broadband-related e-mails we get here at High Speed Experts has to deal with security, and in particular the question of whether faster broadband connections mean more vulnerability. It does indeed stand to reason that a much more narrow window exists to secure a computer or other device from infection or [...]

Xbox TV Channel? Maybe…

May 28, 2010

Microsoft might be mulling the possibility of a video game/Xbox-centric television channel according to multiple sources. Just what the station would feature or how it would work is still a mystery, but Microsoft has already demonstrated that their current generation Xbox gaming devices can serve double-duty as set top boxes (STBs) without substantial upgrades or [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Know Your DOCSIS: Get Up To Speed!

January 8, 2010

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 [...]

Cancel Your Cable Service: A Guide

January 4, 2010

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

December 29, 2009

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 [...]

Time Warner Cable Expanding Bandwidth Cap Restrictions

April 10, 2009

It was nearly a year ago when TWC (Time Warner Cable) announced plans to implement bandwidth restrictions for its internet customers in the Texas area. Per the original plan, the city of Beaumont Texas was to be used as a test run for the cap restrictions, basically meaning customers in this area would no longer [...]