For the average small office network, a 10/100BaseTX installation focused at a standard Ethernet hub gives enough network capacity. But if some of your users will be placing more demand on the network

Gnutella was first introduced by Nullsoft in March 2000. If the name Nullsoft rings a bell, it may well be because it is also the creator of Winamp, the most popular software MP3 player on the Interne

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

All the acronyms and obscure new technologies got you in a jargon jumble? Tim Dean busts it up to help us make sense of it all.

A lot has been made of the coming introduction of 3G, a network that will provide broadband-like speeds to mobile phones. The introduction of the service will, if the pundits are to be believed, creat

Confused by the many broadband plans out there? Nirmal Chandrasena and David Kidd cut through the choice-overload and bring you a comprehensive guide to Australia's top ISPs.

Even if the flexible, paper-thin screen is the undisputed killer app of display technology, it will never get out of the lab if its tied to present-day battery technology. Batteries have, its true, im

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

New bandwidth and storage headaches.

SiS wasn't far behind Intel with its own dual-channel chipset – the 655. This goes one step further than the e7205 to offer PC2700 support for a bandwidth of 5.4GB/s, far in excess of the 533MHz FSB Pentium 4's capability, giving extra room for AGP and I/O.

Director 8 Shockwave Studio is now the platform of choice for those sites determined to provide the richest possible Web experience

Wondering if your neighbour can tell if you're leeching their bandwidth and see what you're doing online?

Millimetre-wave will bring wireless HD to the home.

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).

Lets first look at the implications on connectivity: at present, the Internet is defined, for most users, by the needs and demands of the World Wide Web. This is the space they see and work with on a

At last, the days of 56K modem connections to the Internet are over. There can be no doubt that the Internet has a lot to offer, both for home and business users, and it is also a simple fact that you

I've recently spent a couple of weeks on site at a client running a Linux training course and dabbling with the popular and powerful Web-caching package, Squid.

Auriga has been a regular participant in our Labs, and has submitted solid monitors for the budget-conscious end of the buyers spectrum.

Significant competition from the likes of Optus@Home recently has given cause for Telstra BigPond to devise flat-rate pricing plans that have opened up its cable service to the residential market.

The newest antennae are beam waveguide structures. These dont use a centrally mounted feed-horn system like the older antennae (known as high efficiency) they are replacing; instead, their most sensit