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Expert Zone Support WebCast: Upgrading Your Home Internet Connection From Dial-Up To High-Speed Cable
White Papers The webcast discusses how to choose a broadband Internet service provider, how to install the hardware for the Internet connection, and how to configure Microsoft Windows XP and your software to work with broadband service.
[March 3, 2005, 23:00]
Telewest Broadband Trial Undercuts Dial-up
News The cable company announced on Tuesday that it was launching a "broadband taster" in an attempt to get more people to sign up for a high-speed Internet connection. VAT) per month, plus an installation fee of up to £50.
[April 30, 2002, 12:48]
Dial-up Dissatisfaction Will Keep Broadband Booming
News Although little has changed in the substance and quality of narrowband service, dial-up subscribers are increasingly judging the quality of their connection based on the perception of what broadband has to offer," Greeson added.
[August 13, 2003, 18:05]
OptimAccess Dial
Downloads OptimAccess Dial is designed to protect the dial-up connection of PC to the Internet. If OptimAccess Dial is active, its driver prevents any process from changing the current dial-up connection and adding a new connection.
[April 14, 2005, 13:32]
Microsoft Patches Security Patch
News This week's security fix from Microsoft caused problems for some dial-up users, so the company's now issued a revision However, the fix can interfere with certain dial-up networking connections. Problems occur only with dial-up connections that use...
[June 29, 2006, 10:45]
Broadband Britain To Overtake Dial-up
News The ONS reported on Monday that, in April 2005, 49.2 percent of UK Web users were surfing over a high-speed connection, versus 50.8 percent using dial-up. Latest figures from the Office of National Statistics show that broadband is poised to...
[June 20, 2005, 13:55]
BT Pulls The Plug On Midband
News Midband provides a connection of up to 128kbps, compared to a standard BT broadband connection today of up to 2Mbps per second and standard dial-up speed of 56kbps. The telco confirmed on Tuesday that it will no longer sell Midband, although...
[September 6, 2005, 14:15]
'Critical' Microsoft Fix Breaks Some Net Connections
News The fix delivered with security bulletin MS06-025 can interfere with a certain types of dial-up networking connections, Microsoft said in an article on its support Web site published late on Monday. Problems occur only with dial-up connections that...
[June 21, 2006, 10:05]
'Watchdog' Barks At BTopenworld Tactics
News Those affected have been reclassified by BT, and forced to use a new dial-up connection that is significantly less reliable. The document warns staff not to tell customers that they are being removed from the normal Anytime service, and stresses...
[September 24, 2001, 11:53]
More UK Firms Plan Broadband Upgrade
News Businesses who currently use a pay-as-you-go dial-up connection are most likely to move to broadband soon, with six in 10 expressing an interest. A 50 percent rise in broadband prices would see 86 percent of business users move elsewhere -- to ISDN...
[May 13, 2003, 16:46]
Symantec Lets Small Biz Lock Out Hackers
News The technology is more secure than a dial-up connection and cheaper than buying a dedicated communications line. The appliances also have the ability to establish an encrypted connection between two gateways, and intrusion detection features.An...
[October 9, 2001, 10:14]
GPRS: Next Generation Mobile System Comes To Britain
News GPRS, or General Packet Radio Service, is a way of giving devices such as handhelds, mobile phones or laptop computers an "always on" connection to a network -- they can access the Internet or a corporate intranet, for example, without first...
[July 7, 2000, 15:17]
UK Dial-up Use 'down But Not Out'
News There is a need for ISPs to consider offering content services to dial users, to whet their appetite, and give them an insight into how they could benefit from a faster connection. Broadband services have begun to eat away at the traditional dial...
[January 16, 2004, 13:55]
Making Sense Of Remote Access
News In a Windows network, when using PPP for a dial-up connection, only one protocol is available for data encryption, the Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption Protocol (MPPE), as shown in Table C. It's important to remember that PPP is the only dial-up...
[December 10, 2002, 11:33]
Microsoft Names The Day For Xbox Online
News The 15 November launch date for Xbox gives a two-month head start to Sony, which on 27 August will begin selling a network adapter that will let the PS2 tap into a broadband or dial-up Internet connection for online game play.
[August 13, 2002, 8:25]
Sky May Shake Up UK Broadband Market
News Sky's current set-top boxes use a dial-up connection to the Internet, and there has long been speculation that this could be upgraded to a broadband connection. It has to be all of them," Fogg told ZDNet UK, adding that it has always been only "a...
[October 13, 2005, 18:15]
Facing The Security Risks Of Cable Modems
News When using a dial-up connection, logging off removes your system from the Internet completely. With dial-up access, every time you connect to the Internet you're assigned a different IP address. Another vulnerability of broadband is that it's an...
[July 8, 2002, 16:10]
What Has Broadband Done For Us?
News In fact, those who move to broadband are three times more likely to download videos as those using a dial-up connection, according to a survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, a US non-profit organisation that studies the impact of...
[March 31, 2004, 12:15]
Video IM / VoIP - Where Are We Now?
Blog I have personally done all of those; I regularly have three-way video chats with my brothers, I've had others involved with audio-only ooVoo connections, and I've included a dial-out connection just to verify that it worked - and it did, very nicely.
[March 27, 2008, 10:00]
Exploring The JDS Linux Desktop: JDS Networking
White Papers If one has a high-speed connection, one belongs to a group of millions of people who will not need a conventional dial-up modem. Most newer computers have network facilities and dial-up modems built into the main circuit board or motherboard.
[October 10, 2007, 0:00]
