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

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.

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

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

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

To help you find the best plan for your needs, we've split up users into the following common profiles and provided recommended plans for each. Note that many ISPs have more plans than we could list in the table. We chose to only include the plans from each ISP that were the most competitive compared to the rest of the industry. This means there might be a more suitable plan for you that we didn't list, so be sure to check out the complete range of plans from an ISP if you don't find a good fit.

Bezeq is Israel's equivalent to Telstra, in more ways than one. Like Telstra, Bezeq held a nationalised monopoly over all telephony until recently. Bezeq is taking its time rolling out the next genera

Internet connectivity is almost essential these days. However, with the increasing number of high-speed, always-on connections, such as ADSL and cable modem, the choice of connection has become quite

Easy to set up and administer; has all the advantages which Linux offers.

When would you want to use Mobile Broadband?

Mobile broadband, also called wireless broadband, is full powered broadband Internet access that’s delivered by a mobile phone network (or a similar, long-range, radiation-based transmission system).

Leigh Dyer infuses a cheap standalone router with the power of Linux.

Traditionally firewalls were the bastion of large, publicly accessible networks to keep hackers out. But in a world connected by the Internet, every machine hooked up to it becomes publicly accessible, and so it's vital that every machine is equipped to protect itself, and the network it may serve, from attack.

The crucial factor dictating your online gaming experience is the stability and speed of your Internet connection. If you have a 56K modem and intend to battle groups of people equipped with a broadba

The telco launches a broadside at OPEL project, questioning the $1 billion budget for a network that isn’t here yet.

Avatar is the ancient Sanskrit word for the spirit made flesh, but its been hijacked by Western culture. Davey Winder investigates.

Photo-realistic avatars arent the only fruit. How about a custom built model that you can create off the peg? Such a beast can be found already at the likes of the Virtual Zones Sci-Fi World and Cycos

How do you choose a vendor in the emerging area of mobile broadband? PC Authority explores how to get the best deal and unchain yourself from the office.