Buying your own internet modem is not just a great way to avoid paying rental fees from your ISP—choosing a better model than what your cable company offers lets you unlock better internet and network ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The vast majority of Americans today have access to the internet. If you live in a big city, you probably have the option to choose between a ...

I've had ATT Broadband for about a month now and the performance has been top-notch without a single hiccup...until yesterday. Now, every once in a while, the service will cut out, and the "Status" ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." If you get Internet service from your cable company, you’ve probably noticed it’s not cheap, and it’s ...

Ping Log - 430K text file - A repeating ping to www.cisco.com from about 2pm to 7.30pm PST<BR><BR>My ATT Cable service has been acting up all day. I've got a linksys cable modem connected to a linksys ...

Is your cable modem dead? You're not alone. Nearly a million subscribers to Excite@Home's cable-modem service (which is sold by companies such as AT&T Broadband and Comcast) lost their high-speed ...

Telewest's "Blueyonder" cable modem service is now available in all Telewest franchise areas, following an extensive rollout programme since its launch in March 2000. Blueyonder is available via a ...

The first "wideband" cable modems employing the DOCSIS 3.0 transmission standard, which can deliver download speeds of 100Mbps or more, have been certified for production. CableLabs, which is licensed ...

Adoption of Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) high-speed Internet services outpaced cable modem deployment in the U.S. during the second half of 2002, thanks to increased broadband ...

In a recent newsletter, we discussed whether it was necessary to encrypt conversations being transmitted over an IP network. In fact, we went so far as to suggest that it might be too easy to encrypt ...