AOL France and French cable company NC Numericable are for the first time to offer cable modem Internet access to the towns surrounding Lyon. The service is the latest stage of a countrywide roll-out of high speed cable Internet access.
A bit of cable gets pinned to the wall, a scary-looking blue-green DSL modem gets plugged into my USB port. Then the problems start - Pete puts in a bit more cable, and starts getting error messages. He came, tested the line, and still got that...
Upstream rates are theoretically slower for cable modem-based services (128Kbps versus 256Kbps for ADSL), but that has yet to bother me. The most common error, which was ironed out after some tech support, required a simultaneous cable modem and PC...
Other highlights from the research show that half of UK households and two-thirds of UK businesses are now online, one in five homes with internet access have broadband, broadband take-up is outstripping cable modem connections by a factor of...
The ads will tout the notebooks' ability to "unwire", or detach, from a power line and a modem or an Ethernet network cable and to check email or surf the web using wireless networking. With its new campaign Intel will endeavour to shift consumers...
EarthLink built a whole business model on selling wi-fi broadband service as a replacement for DSL or cable modem service. He said: "In a city where wi-fi is deployed right, it can create a real paradigm shift.