Broadband communications and home networking require higher data rates, which in turn demand higher speed modems. Several technologies are being developed to handle these increased data speeds. Only ...

Figuring out which high-speed internet plan to sign up for can be surprisingly daunting when you’re faced with three different types of internet connection: DSL, cable and fiber optic.

In order to prevent users with low-cost DSL access from hosting high-traffic Web servers, the upload speed is generally much slower than the download speed. Like cable Internet providers ...