If you find yourself hankering for broadband during a short-term hiatus, Laptop Connect could be the answer to your prayers. This new service offers wireless broadband modem rentals posted to your ...

Flarion Technologies, a vendor of metropolitan area network (MAN) equipment based on the IEEE 802.20 standard, said Wednesday it has started shipping modems and embedded chipsets for laptops, ...

A U.S. company on Monday unveiled its version of a modem that can automatically switch between an 802.11 wireless network and wireless Internet services from commercial carriers. The new card from ...

Not long ago I wrote about a start-up with a broadband-bonding technology that lets enterprises cobble together multiple high-speed wired Internet connections to boost network speed and reliability.

While most broadband services to your home are delivered through phone lines or fibre cables, mobile or wireless broadband works in a different way. Instead of using the landline phone network, it ...

First, the good news: for companies planning to deploy broadband connectivity to their mobile workforces, the options have never looked better. Initial rollouts of 3G (third-generation) cellular data ...

At one time, users had to buy Ethernet adapters, install them in their desktop computers, and then upgrade them as they moved to a faster version of the networking option. Now when users buy a desktop ...

When you sign a contract with an internet provider, they'll typically send you a modem and a router in the mail. But which is which? And how are they different? A modem and a router work in tandem ...

With all this discussion about the pros and cons of wireless broadband, it was interesting to see Telstra bring to the market a new wireless broadband modem that the company has labelled as "Australia ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. If you’ve got a mesh Wi-Fi network set up in your home, you ...

Traditionally, high-speed residential internet service has entered homes through wires. The Comcast broadband service my family has relied on for decades arrives at our St. Paul house via coaxial ...