Broadband

The brand-spanking new OQO 02 Windows-based handheld computer is shipping (so say the good folks at news.com) and I’m dying to get my hands on one of the nifty little beasts. Just take a look at the tiny model 02 and tell me you wouldn’t want to take it for a spin around the block [...]

Verizon is running an aggressive new advertising campaign to push their DSL service. As part of that campaign, the company touts a J.D. Power and Associate report that polled “thousands of consumers nationwide” on factors including cost, billing, image, performance and reliability, customer service, and email. Unfortunately, the results don’t always look good for Verizon’s [...]

Satellite Internet service is wonderful for remote locations that are not served by any other broadband connections. In many ways, it’s very cool. You can achieve blistering downloads on large files over a satellite Internet connection. But there are significant caveats.
In the time that I had my satellite Internet connection I saw many downloads rocket [...]

Can you get a DSL connection at your place? I wanted a DSL Internet connection for the longest time. But, I still can’t get DSL service run to Ranchero Indebto. At the time I installed my satellite Internet connection, DSL wasn’t an option in my town … all we had was a one-way cable system [...]

Satellite Internet service is wonderful for remote locations that are not served by any other broadband connections. In many ways, it’s very cool. You can achieve blistering downloads on large files over a satellite Internet connection. But there are significant caveats.

I’ve dreamed about getting my own T1 line ever since my first net job, in the pre go-go days. At that time, a T1 line was an exotic thing. Very few companies had made the investment in a T1 line back in the mid-90s. These days, big fat connections are everywhere. How cool would [...]