Super Speed, Internet TV, and Net Neutrality

There’s a little old lady in Sweden who can surf the Internet at the astonishing speed of 40 gigabits per second. Thanks to an experimental technique developed by her son Peter, Sigbritt Lothberg has the fastest home Internet connection anywhere on the planet. She...

DSL Basics

DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) is a kind of broadband, that is, a form of highspeed Internet Access that uses a copper telephone connection much like dial-up does.  And like dial-up, DSL also uses a modem to convert computer data into tones and send them through the...