Well known for its dialup modem business, Australian manufacturer NetComm has made a significant push beyond its traditional boundaries, and is moving into the general networking, wireless and ADSL modem space.

The form of DSL offered by BigPond is ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line), meaning that the upload speed is lower than the download speed.

Telstra hopes to make its broadband ADSL services available to more potential customers in the near future.

Telstra yesterday announced it will let the public decide which telephone exchanges will next be upgraded to handle ADSL.

Telstra says it now has more than 300,000 ADSL subscribers and is on target to reach a million by 2005. The problem with home ADSL is that unlike cable, Telstra doesn’t make it easy to network even though it requires an Ethernet connection. Interestingly, the Ethernet requirement for broadband Internet connectivity is also helping to drive the rising popularity of home networks.

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Median SMB broadband pricing fell 17.22 percent and residential broadband pricing 0.79 percent after Telstra fired a February salvo starting a $29.95 price war, a recent study has claimed.

What will you be buying, using and drooling over this year? Tim Dean looks at the astounding products and technologies due to hit in the next 12 months.

Simon Edwards shows you how to get up and running with SmoothWall.

Increase your internet security with a hardware firewall. Simon Edwards shows you how to get started in this step by step guide.

Installing and configuring the NB1300 is easy - just plug it in, install the drivers, and you can use the web-based interface to change any necessary settings.

Your wireless network is more powerful than you imagine. Use this guide to fully understand and utilise it.

Nathan Taylor explores the world of wireless technology, from WANs, LANs and PANs - what we've got and what's to come.

Once you go mobile, you won’t go back. We uncover the hardware, the plans and the services that’ll unshackle you from the office.

More DSL flavours than colours of the rainbow. Tim Dean breaks some of the acronyms apart.

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In recent years, broadband Internet connections have grown exponentially in popularity as major providers have raced to extend the coverage of cable and ADSL connections to suburbs across the country.

Gilat is a company that could be poised to become a big name overseas. Based in Tel Aviv and with over 1,500 employees worldwide, it specialises in satellite telecommunications. Gilat has found succes

Product brief continues as we look at more products from June.