This Broadband Superguide consolidates a massive selection of features, blogs, case studies, news stories and whitepapers to provide everything you need to know about broadband.
Reviews
The Linksys WRT160N Wireless-N broadband router has consistent performance, good range, a helpful software application, and a good set of networking features. Its lack of gigabit and USB support are the only major knocks against it.
The hardware performs its part of the equation just fine, but if you're considering Optus' wireless broadband make sure you take advantage of its seven-day trial period.
As a basic wireless N kit, the Conceptronic Wireless 300Mbps Broadband Starter pack offers reasonable value, but like so many of its wireless N peers, it still fails to live up to the hype.
Telstra's prepaid wireless broadband offering is good for casual browsers or those who'd rather avoid dodgy Net cafes, but beware — there's a pricing sting to be considered.
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Adobe's Media Player is an excellent application that is beautifully designed and easy to use. Shame about the currently available content.
NetComm have offered a small scale DSLAM designed for hotels, serviced apartments or serviced offices. We found it to be a very robust device which is easy to deploy and manage.
The TA612V is a solid unit that provides a low-cost way to make VoIP calls. It is a good choice for a household or small home office where users are keen to cut their telephone bills.
Fancy a 1.3Mbps broadband pipeline direct to your notebook, without a cable in sight? The new BigPond wireless data card makes good on Telstra's lofty promises for its Next G network.
High-speed mobile broadband has arrived! We compare Telstra's BigPond Wireless Next G service with Vodafone's HSDPA-enhanced 3G network.
Telstra has quietly started offering two new ways of accessing its new nation-wide third-generation Next G mobile network, with two new USB modems now on sale.
Features and Case Studies
As we know, farmers are such bleaters. They bleat as much as the four-legged woolly things in their paddocks. If it's not the weather, it's the strength of the dollar! Nothing is ever right. Likewise with rural broadband.
While everyone was distracted by the NBN, a revolution was under way in the supply of fixed line broadband.
Debate over the National Broadband Network is heating up. Is it economic? Do we want to avoid two major networks? What will be built? How will it be funded?
The potential acquisition of Pipe Networks by SP Telemedia has raised the question about whether vertically integrated backhaul providers will mean higher wholesale prices for ISP customers.
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One year into its tenure, how has the new New Zealand Government performed on issues of technology and telecommunications?
Boss of internet service provider Exetel, John Linton, says the National Broadband Network should be handed to the only company that can build it — Telstra — and he's not impressed by NBN Co chief Mike Quigley.
Next month the Senate Select Committee on the NBN will table its final report. It will reflect the views of 100 or so submitted documents and a series of public hearings.
The court case between internet service provider iiNet and a number of movie studios represented by the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) is grabbing attention as the pair war about who's responsible for Australians downloading pirated content on the internet. This interactive timeline presents a complete history of the trial.
Should Telstra be investing in a pre-emptive defence against the NBN? Or should it go slow and wait like everybody else?
Cloud Computing not for New Zealand?
Related News
Telstra has released a series of new broadband plans as the telco aims to sharpen its offerings in the ultra-competitive sector.
A conference to be held at the University of New South Wales on the future of fast broadband will cost taxpayers $528,000.
A NZ government-funded survey has raised questions about the productivity gains to be made from providing fast internet access.
Telstra has flagged price reductions for its broadband products and services as it fights to maintain market share in the highly competitive sector.
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The Federal Government today revealed it had organised what it described as a "major forum" on the future of Australia's digital economy in the wake of the construction of the National Broadband Network.
Internet service provider Internode this morning announced new symmetrical broadband (SHDSL) pricing as it revealed plans to double the reach of the services for 2010.
NSW Minister for Education, Verity Firth, today said that the government had signed on Telstra to bring fast broadband to over 1.2 million students.
Telstra has announced an upgrade to its HFC broadband network within Melbourne as well as its Velocity fibre-to-the-home network and will begin trailing a new TV set-top box.
Internet service provider iiNet is on track to boost its market share of fixed broadband customers by installing its network infrastructure into eight new regional communities.
TelstraClear is spending around $NZ25 million putting its own equipment into telephone exchanges.
Whitepapers
Sending broadband video over Wireless LANs (WLANs) used to be a trying experience, with jitter and dropouts marring picture quality, and bandwidth limits restricting the number of available channels. Three developments have transformed the video landscape by making it possible...
It's next to impossible to find a laptop without built-in wi-fi these days. With high speed access and a growing number of hotspots and other access points, wi-fi is a blessing to mobile workers around the globe. Mobile broadband, based...
Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) a group of telecommunication associations working towards the development and maintenance of a Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) including evolved radio access technologies, has started working on Long-Term Evolution advanced (LTE-Advanced) in order to...
The benefits of the Internet, both for businesses and the consumer are widely documented. When people talk about 'broadband', however, most are talking about Asymmetric DSL (ADSL), which is still essentially a consumer technology. In the business world,...
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Broadband infrastructure is a major driver of the 21st-century global economy, but the United States has steadily fallen behind other countries in broadband penetration and capabilities. Investment in an infrastructure with high capabilities can turn this trend around - while...
This paper provides information about Windows 7 support for Mobile Broadband. It provides guidelines for hardware manufacturers, original equipment manufacturers, and mobile network operators on developing logo-compliant Mobile Broadband drivers for chipsets/modules that are already commercially deployed. By following the...
It is becoming more and more apparent that the vast majority of subscribers in developing countries will be receiving wireless broadband information services through mobile terminals. To make the growth in mobile technology and services sustainable, stakeholders of the mobile...
Broadband networks are an increasingly essential part of the global information society, enabling overall economic growth, and creating new jobs, fostering innovation and enhancing national competitiveness. To achieve these and other benefits of broadband, developing nations need to establish enabling...
Microstrip patch antennas are well suited for wireless Local Area Network (LAN) application systems due to their versatility, conformability, low cost and low sensitivity to manufacturing tolerances. Conventionally patch antennas have showed a narrowband response, implicating low bit rate transfer....
After initially floundering for a number of years, mobile broadband technology has finally come into its own. Maturing in its capabilities and dropping in price, mobile broadband connectivity has become a mainstream method for staying in touch with people and...
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