Broadband service providers have responded quickly to Telstra BigPond's recent changes to its broadband plans, signaling a possible price war to attract and retain broadband customers.
Telstra claims it is disabling an increasing number of BigPond Internet accounts involved in spamming as it adopts a "get-tough" policy on the annoying and expensive practice.
The recent upgrade of Telstra's newsgroup server caused some hiccups with the company's helpdesk receiving around 95 calls from users unable to access the system after it was replaced by a higher capacity machine.
Request Broadband is moving into the low end of the business ADSL market with the launch of its RequestSoHo service next Monday.
VPNs are being touted as the way to affordable broadband in Australia, but many services, such as online gaming and streaming media, aren't currently utilised due to the high cost of bandwidth.
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Have you ever wondered just how much "junk" Internet traffic is costing your company? One of Jonathan Yarden's coworkers recently tasked him with finding out. In this case study, learn how he went about gathering this information, and see how unwanted traffic affects his organisation's bottom line.
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.
Optus' combo PC Card ticks every box on the wireless menu, including 3G, GPRS and Wi-Fi, to serve road warriors with a smorgasbord of connectivity.
The broadband business -- plans, peaks, and penalties -- can be confusing to say the least. We line up some of Australia's best.
The Linksys WRT54GS is especially well suited for networks with both 802.11g and 802.11b connections.
A broadband connection brings the Internet into your home at blazing speeds. And with a wireless, or Wi-Fi, network, you can get that access on multiple computers throughout your home -- and even outside -- without cords.
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