Learn how ADSL provides high-speed internet over phone lines, its benefits over cable, and its widespread availability, ideal for both home and rural areas.

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

Computer industry security experts believe they have discovered a vulnerability in certain high-speed modems manufactured by Alcatel, the French communications equipment giant. Though only theoretical ...

Andrea Gallo, Maddalena Brattoli and Nicola Magistro, ofSTMicroelectronics, describe how an ADSL modem's realtime controlsoftware can be run on a host over the USB. In the last few years there has ...

You can connect a DSL modem to a D-Link router by using an Ethernet cable and then entering your DSL username and password. Most DSL modems have a built-in router ...

Q. My Verizon DSL modem-router combo doesn't offer enough Wi-Fi range. Can I replace that with a better model? A. Yes, although Verizon doesn't make that option at all clear. Its support site is ...

A device that connects multiple computers to a cable or DSL line for Internet access. Also called a "residential gateway," "modem/router," "modem gateway," "home gateway" and "Internet gateway." The ...

The ability to support an ADSL system over a very long reach at maximum data speed is limited by many factors, including the allowed transmission power, loop signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), ...

People who are starting to use ethernet based ADSL modems are finding it’s more and more of a problem to configure all the various bits of software to work 100% behind a NAT device. A standard has ...

ADSL modems have been a long time coming because telecoms providers have found itdifficult to justify the cost of providing ADSL at consumer prices. Two technical problems helped cause this: the need ...

A modem-router combo merges two essential components of your home’s internet connectivity: the modem, which establishes your connection to the internet; and the router, which distributes that ...

Using advanced modulation methods, like discrete multitone and carrierless amplitude and phase techniques, asymmetrical-digital-subscriber-line (ADSL) service can move digital data at up to 8 Mbits/s ...