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UK lags in European broadband stakes

Average broadband speeds in the UK have reached 5 megabits per second, making it the 25th fastest country in the world, though... Read more

24 October, 2011
UK's broadband blackspots named

UK's broadband blackspots named

...One in 10 British neighbourhoods gets broadband speeds below three megabits per second, despite the UK's push for super-fast connections, according... Read more

24 February, 2012 by David Meyer

Britain's broadband blackspots revealed

...shamedPhoto: Shutterstock One in 10 British neighbourhoods gets broadband speeds below three megabits per second, despite the UK's push for super-fast connections, according... Read more

24 February, 2012 by David Meyer
Huawei shows off 4G, fibre and Android

Huawei shows off 4G, fibre and Android

...the technology to eventually allow people to upload data at hundreds of megabits per second. According to Huawei wireless marketing chief Lars Bondelind, people should... Read more

26 October, 2010 by David Meyer

Carter attacks coalition over 2Mbps delay

...report, has attacked the coalition government's decision to delay the two-megabits-per-second universal service commitment from 2012 to 2015. Speaking at a... Read more

2 September, 2010 by David Meyer
How to Boost File Transfer Speeds 100x Without Increasing Your Bandwidth

How to Boost File Transfer Speeds 100x Without Increasing Your Bandwidth

...mere household broadband connections are already in the Megabits (or even hundred Megabits) per second, some large organizations still have to transfer files at unbelievably... Read more

3 April, 2012
An Emerging Concept for 4G+ Wireless Cellular Networks: Terminal Relaying

An Emerging Concept for 4G+ Wireless Cellular Networks: Terminal Relaying

...Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-A) standards which enable communication rates of 100 Megabits per second for mobile communications and 1 Gigabit per second for nomadic... Read more

1 September, 2011
1024 Calculator 1.2

1024 Calculator 1.2

...times and amounts of data to transfer. It does all of the Megabits per second to Megabytes and other conversions for you, so you don... Read more

20 July, 2011

Bridge LANs without wires

When concrete ceilings and low budgets get in the way of networking floors and buildings, consider using wireless access points to bridge wired network segments Read more

17 October, 2002 by Ron Nutter

Wireless networking moves up to warp speed

...Holy Grail. It has produced a wireless network that runs at 100 megabits per second - ten times faster than the fastest WiFi systems you can... Read more

19 October, 2001 by Guy Kewney

US firm trials 4G broadband

...use equipment from Flarion Technologies capable of downloading data at 1.5 megabits per second. The service will provide high-speed wireless Net access on... Read more

9 February, 2004 by Ben Charny

Telewest vows to keep beating BT for broadband speed

...content is tipped to push Broadband Britain's top speed beyond three megabits per second, if the demand is there Read more

19 May, 2004 by Graeme Wearden

US Robotics launches 125Mbps Wi-Fi update

...updated its 802.11g hardware to allow wireless connectivity up to 125 megabits per second Read more

6 April, 2004 by Munir Kotadia

Telewest 2Mbps broadband lifts off

The cable company puts two-megabits-per-second surfing on the menu, as speed becomes an increasingly important... Read more

12 May, 2003 by Graeme Wearden
Cabling and Test Considerations for 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GigE) Local Area Networks

Cabling and Test Considerations for 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GigE) Local Area Networks

Current communication data rates in local networks range from 10/100 Megabits per second (Mbps) in Ethernet to 1 Gigabit per second (Gbps) in... Read more

9 September, 2008

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