blog The National Broadband Network (NBN) implementation study was full of good news for the Federal Government, but it also contained contingency plans for the case of cost blow-outs or nasty ...

The next generation of broadband came closer last week when Californian chip company Ikanos demonstrated Ethernet at 50 megabits per second (mbps) download speeds over a kilometer of copper wire. The ...

ADSL technology has been a resounding success and the number of subscribers is expected to continue growing over the next several years. But with the consumer quest for more speed continuing, many ...

Editor's Note: To view a PDF version of this article, Click Here. Telecommunications operators are responding to the competitive threat of cable and satellite services by offering high-speed ...

Long Reach VDSL has been in the background for almost a year now, and longer than that in the laboratory, and Isfield in Sussex has been taking part in a trial and Openreach is now expanding this ...

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Home network specialist devolo is now rolling out the new DIM feature with a firmware update for its Magic series. The abbreviation stands for "Dynamic Interference Mitigation", a function that ...

NETGEAR just announced a $250 high performance router with an embedded DSL modem supporting ADSL/ADSL2/ADSL2+ and VDSL/VDSL2 speeds. The new Nighthawk AC1900 WiFi VDSL/ADSL Modem Router also offers ...

MWEB has launched six new connectivity products that take advantage of the introduction of VDSL (Very-High-Bit-Rate Digital Subscriber Line) technology in South Africa. “VDSL is like ADSL on steroids ...

Openserve recently upgraded the upload speeds of its VDSL services. Subscribers on 20Mbps VDSL now get up to 5Mbps up, while 40Mbps receive uploads of up to 10Mbps. Openserve said it doesn’t plan to ...

TL;DR: My VDSL sucks! Help me run a new 30-40m cable to replace my old, noise-prone POTS cabling. Long version: Hi all, I'm in Athens, Greece where the only way to get a decent broadband connection is ...