Question: I'm really confused by all the ads about high-speed Internet connections. I know they're way faster than a 56Kbps (kilobit per second) modem, but I'm not clear on what the speeds really are.

Digital Subscriber Line technology is how telephone companies provide high-speed Internet access to their customers. It establishes a point-to-point connection between the telephone company's central ...

FREMONT, Calif. — Ikanos Communications Inc. has a chip set that unifies discrete multitone (DMT) coding for asymmetric digital subscriber line, very high-bit-rate DSL and “Ethernet in the first mile” ...

Colorado Springs, Colo. — Texas Instruments Inc. has unveiled five derivatives of its UR8 processor architecture for digital subscriber line networks. The UR8–which combines a multimedia gateway ...

In the computer networking world, the three most ubiquitous pieces of equipment are modems, routers, and switches. These are used everywhere from the datacenter hosting Google to the internet ...

This content is being maintained for reference purposes but is not being updated. The D-Link DSL-300T is one of the few ADSL modems on the UK market that can present the ISP assigned IP address to a ...