Items Tagged With internet

"Mr Danon finished by saying: "We recognise that the benefits of the new communications revolution are too great to leave people behind, but that there are technological limits to providing affordable broadband for all. So today we are also announcing a new alternative high speed internet access product for those who would not be able to get broadband. Our new "midband" product will begin trials in the Spring. It will provide an "always-on" email facility with fast internet access at up to 128K when needed and will be available quickly to 97 per cent of the UK population."

This is potentially very exciting news if (like me) you just need a low bandwidth, always on connection to monitor and control your house but are unable to get ADSL. I'm trying to find out if this is ISDN based, using the D Channel.

Trials for the world's first commercial high-speed internet service delivered over thin air have begun in the south Wales valleys. British Telecom is testing a new radio wave-based delivery system which could soon reach thousands of people not served by ground-based delivery systems...

Telewest are now offering Blueyonder Broadband Internet at £13 something, a month for your first three months. After that you can continue to pay £29 per month of have it removed, Telewest even refund your installation fee. Is this a real "No-Ties" Trial.

Blueyonder

I've been steadily watching the price of 802.11b wireless LAN gear drop over the last 18 months. Like most other technology, its cost is on a downward spiral. Access Points that used to cost a grand are now available at under £200 while PCMCIA cards appear to have dropped below £100. It's at this level that I have "bought in"...

In a professional capacity, I've been playing with WAP on and off for the last 12 months. For those people who have been shut in a dark room for the last 2 years, WAP was conceived as a low-bandwidth way for people to access the Internet via mobile devices such as mobile phones. I think I'm safe in saying that it hasn't exactly taken off in the way the designers planned. A year ago, it was being pushed as "the next big thing", however it soon became apparent that the limitations of viewing Internet information on a screen not much bigger than a box of matches wasn't what many people wanted...