A recent experience with attempting to install DSL turned out to be more complicated than it should have been. Reports are that this is not an uncommon experience. Verizon, our supplier, provided a CD ...

This isn't exactly Networking Matrix's domain, but maybe one of you could help me out. My self-install DSL kit arrived about a week ago, and I have a problem: the security system in this house is (as ...

Upon ordering, and on completion of the successful line tests (see availability), a BT engineer will visit the exchange and attach your line to the DSLAM. For the standard DSL products, the engineer ...

A handheld, battery-operated test set for the installation and maintenance of copper-based broadband access networks, the CoLT-450P from EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering assesses IPTV and HDTV over ...

I’m sitting on the cold tile floor of my home office in my bedroom, the metal back off the computer, flashlight in hand. The PC’s screen has gone blank. So has my gaze. Twenty minutes ago, the machine ...

One generalization we can make about computing is that over time, most technology items become cheaper, while at the same time, they become faster. This is true of broadband in its most common forms.

I moved recently, leaving behind spotty 3mbps DSL for 15mbps cable internet. I'm only a few miles down the road, but telecommunications laws being what they are, that's all it took to get some decent ...