DIY ADSL? It's Not As Cheap As You Think
News Internet Service Providers have warned that consumers who buy a self-installation "wires only" ADSL product will have to stump up the price of a modem -- which is likely to negate most of the saving a customer would expect to make by choosing this...
[November 21, 2001, 14:05]
Netgear DG814 DSL Modem Internet Gateway review
Reviews If wires-only customers use network gear that didn’t come from their ISP, there are bound to be support headaches. Wires-only customers will include a lot of first-time networkers. The day the new ADSL service is switched on, a lot of very green...
[September 27, 2002, 8:40]
BT Approves DIY Broadband Christmas Present
News Trials of the "wires-only" ADSL product have been running since the start of December. Consumers will be able to sign up for self-installation ADSL services early in the New Year, BT Wholesale confirmed on Tuesday.
[December 18, 2001, 12:37]
Putting Broadband To Work
News The very lowest cost option is wires-only ADSL, where you have to buy the modem and filters, the best value higher speed connection is the 1Mb service from UK cable companies. At the less expensive end, cable and ADSL broadband differ chiefly in...
[November 6, 2002, 12:29]
Netgear DG824M review
Reviews The only things you need to add yourself are a wires-only ADSL account and your choice of computers to use it with. Alternatively, you can get Netgear’s DG824M wireless ADSL modem and firewall router, and have it all in a smart-looking, single unit...
[April 2, 2003, 9:38]
Broadband Enters The DIY Age
News Bruce Stanford, BT director of broadband, explained to the gathering of champagne-lubricated hacks that the "wires-only" product would succeed because it offered a cheaper and more flexible route to high-speed Internet access.
[January 16, 2002, 15:18]
US Report: Cable Modems Outpace ADSL
News In the other: local phone companies sporting a technology called ADSL that promises to turn sluggish copper wires into data sprinters. Bruce Leichtman, a senior analyst with the Yankee Group, estimates there will be just 25,000 paying ADSL...
[August 3, 1998, 9:22]
E-minister: Britain Will Be Broadband Leader
News If BT has had a lot of difficulties it certainly hasn't helped that the copper wires are so old. While T-Online has connected 2.6 million customers to ADSL services, BT has managed just 45,000. That figure was what government consultants estimated...
[April 24, 2001, 10:57]
'Supercomputer-on-a-chip' To Power Consumer Devices
News Cell products will use some of the more advanced technologies on the drawing boards today, such as copper wires and silicon-on-insulator transistors. Broadband technologies such as ADSL and cable-modems have been sold to consumers in the US for the...
[March 12, 2001, 15:48]
Yesterday
Talkback ADSL was only meant to be a transitional technology run over old copper wires, and even here BT is hopelessly behind current standards. Where are the fibre-optic lines into every house?
[November 17, 2006, 10:15]
Intel To Expand BT Broadband Range
News BTopenworld is trialling a "wires only" product for customers who already own an ADSL modem, or wish to buy their own, but has announced no definite plans for bringing the offering to market. Intel is to release a range of Ethernet ADSL modems and...
[March 1, 2002, 14:01]
Sarian Lets Users Measure ISP Performance
News Ellison also highlighted the routers' HSDPA-based redundancy, suggesting that it offers "a viable alternative with no wires to having a broadband connection". Sarian Systems' DR6000 Series ranges from a basic ADSL router to a device that includes...
[February 28, 2007, 16:10]
Jesse Berst: Why DSL Will Win The Fast-access Fight
News DSL uses existing copper phone wires. Take me to the ADSL Special Boxing matches, whether the world is going to end come January 1, and even whether Tech Director Jon DeKeles will take that third trip through the complimentary buffet line.
[October 6, 1999, 10:07]
There Is A Reason For The Digital Divide Not Mentioned Here
Talkback ADSL really is yesterday's technology, using old coppler wires. Don't call ADSL broadband, it really is only like a slow one-way road, nothing more. BT still has a monopoly in many areas, even in the sourth east.
[August 28, 2008, 11:31]
Broadband Boom Gathers Speed
News But BT will begin allowing competing telcos access to its copper wires for the first time this year, and technological advances mean British ADSL users may not have to face some of the technology's worst hurdles.
[November 21, 2000, 10:46]
BT Not Business-oriented
Talkback What's really needed is to get rid of yesterday's technology over old copper wires, such as ADSL, and to set up a nation wide fibre-optics network into every house or building. BT is like a dinosaur about to become extinct.
[February 21, 2007, 11:11]
Boosting Broadband Competition Is Vital, Says IoD
Talkback BT only have control over the consumer with its infrastructure of wires and the pointless "line rental". They could do with co-operating with other providers instead of playing slow monopoly.announcing a 2Mbps service trial is a prime example...
[November 4, 2004, 12:48]
French Powerline Vendor Wires Homes And Hotels
News The key to LEA's systems is an ADSL router, which the company calls the ELEKTRA gateway. French IT equipment manufacturer LEA is demonstrating a range of products at the CeBIT trade show in Hannover that allow a broadband connection to be shared...
[March 18, 2004, 18:15]
