The topic of broadband router quality rarely arises when investigating new internet service providers.
Cost and line speed tend to hog the headlines, followed by more nebulous issues like customer service.
Some companies don’t even provid...
By now, most of us are familiar with the concept of Wireless Fidelity, or WiFi.
Domestic and commercial broadband internet is underpinned by wireless data transmitted across the radio frequency spectrum via dedicated routers, usually at eit...
“Greetings of the day! I am Nigerian PRINCE, and I have named you the benefiter of a legacy inherited to me of $17,500,000.”
So begins a typical phishing email, of the sort we’ve all received at one time or another.
We tend to dismiss...
More UK households now have streaming media subscriptions than conventional pay TV services, but rumours of the broadcasters’ demise have been greatly exaggerated.
Virgin Media subscriber levels have held steady over the last five years, ...
When you consider computers and the internet are powered entirely by the binary programming system of zeroes and ones, the systems of measurement seem unduly complex.
Few people could confidently explain the difference between bits and byte...
The internet has had a seismic effect on modern living, and nowhere more so than in the growth of flexible working arrangements.
Cloud hosting, video calling and collaborative software tools make it easier than ever to be productive outside...
The UK has played a leading role in the development of computing and the internet.
From the ZX Spectrum to the World Wide Web, our contribution to the digital revolution has been surpassed only by America – a nation with five times our po...
We take wireless communications for granted nowadays, but it’s easy to overlook the complexity of cable-free connectivity.
Plugging a broadband router into a phone socket doesn’t give us an automatic right to ultrafast internet access t...
Apart from telling people to Turn It Off And Turn It On Again, tech support teams are notorious for asking whether a computer is hardwired to the broadband router.
It’s often the first question you’ll be asked when phoning your broadban...
It’s fair to say passwords have become something of a hindrance to online browsing these days.
Cybercrime has driven website administrators to impose increasingly draconian requirements for identifying ourselves as legitimate account hold...
