Firing its first salvo into the broadband price war, Tesco's carved the arse out of its broadband fees, bringing them all the way down to just £2 a month for 12 months. Even better, if you're a Tesco Mobile customer, you can bag the same for absolutely free, well, plus line rental. Read More >>
Featured comment by HelloMyNamesTom:
"I fucking hate the word "unlimited" we were on 20mb/s (unlimited) broadband until sky told my mum that theirs was better because it was unlimited and ..." More »
Getting bummed 'cos you're only getting 80Mbps on your fibre-optic broadband line? Well, there's no need to do a Hyundai yet, because researchers reckon that we're only using around half of fibre's capacity at the moment, leaving a whole 'nother chunk of bandwidth ready for the advent of 4K 'movies'. Read More >>
Featured comment by ZNewton:
"For someone who is on as much as 10Mbps on a good day, I think 80Mbps would be a godsend! And here you lot are asking for more!" More »
Manchester City might not have won the league, but at least it'll have a whole stadium filled with Cisco's "intelligent high-density Wi-Fi" for fans to stream things like instant replays or tweet their frustration with some overpaid diving twerp. Could be awesome for action replays -- the best of TV brought directly into the stadium on your phone? [TNW] Read More >>
Featured comment by unuspromulti:
"It's a shame the original article missed mentioning the system the 49ers are putting into their new stadium coming next year. 70,000 simultaneous conn..." More »
As the country has done before, Syria cut off the Internet for all its citizens yesterday. As in all Internet access has completely disappeared. Google's Transparency Report, which shows traffic to Google, reveals that Syria pretty much no longer exists on the Internet. Read More >>
Featured comment by Bittys:
"That depends on which country you live in.
Spain, France, Finland, Greece, Estonia and Costa Rica have all passed laws declaring internet access to..." More »
Ofcom has agreed to deeply and thoroughly probe BT's business practices, following complaints from TalkTalk that BT's been a naughty boy, charging third-party ISPs more than it should for access to their high-speed fibre-optic network. Read More >>
Featured comment by spank86:
"I wouldn't say no chance, I'd never promise that but if you don't change anything it should be the same.
Only problem is sometimes people muck up ..." More »
The humble router is your gateway to the internet. Everything you do on your home broadband connection goes through it, and if it's playing up it breaks your internet. In fact, if yours is anything like mine, it cocks up much more than it should. Maybe that's because they've barely changed in the last 25 years. Read More >>
Featured comment by locust76:
"There's really no such thing as "basic QoS." It's a very complicated subject. Sure, you could define a few standard rules here and there for well-know..." More »
Virgin Media has made the rather enormous error of sending out a bill to a dead man, also cheekily adding a £10 late payment fee. Why not turn up at the funeral and prise the rings off his fingers to pay for his TV debts, you cold-hearted automatons? Read More >>
Featured comment by armhed:
"Funny you should say that. I did have a bill they tried to overcharge me for three months and it took about 2 hours and 3 phone calls to sort out. The..." More »
Buoyed by its purchase of a decent £200 million chunk of 4G spectrum, BT's looking to get back in the mobile game, despite previously saying it had no intention of going mobile again. It's looking for a partner to leverage BT Mobile. It's like BT Cellnet all over again. Read More >>
Featured comment by baystar:
"I read on BBC News that BT's 4G spectrum won't be used for telephony but solely for some sort of mobile internet service. Presumably they'll offer 4G ..." More »
Did you know John Lewis did broadband? No, neither did the rest of the planet. And that's why if you buy anything with an internet connection -- be it a printer, tablet or laptop -- the department store will gift you six-whole-months of free broadband. Read More >>
A Sony-backed ISP in Japan has launched an astonishingly quick new broadband option, letting local users register for an unbelievable two gigabytes per second home fibre service. But don't be too jealous, they'll probably only get 1.7Gbps in the evenings. Read More >>
Virgin isn't exactly a student of laissez-fairebroadband, instead choosing to actively 'traffic-manage' its customers. It's just rolled out a new system of traffic management, and whilst it leads to some theoretically marginal improvements for consumers, it's the most complicated sonofabitch you're ever gonna see. But more than that, it's a demonstration of how out-of-touch some ISPs really are. Read More >>
Featured comment by matt.sokolinski:
"And how is that contract term fair to the user?? If I dont like the change, I cant do anything about it because I'll get early termination fee and god..." More »
Good news if you're on O2. The network's just announced a deal with Virgin to give its customers free Wi-Fi access on London Underground, just like Vodafone and EE, from June. That will leave just Three and the MVNOs out of the free Tube Wi-Fi party. [Virgin] Read More >>
Featured comment by sg1969:
"I never found this useful.... If I have to wait for a train longer than 5-10 minutes, I'll just jump on the bus.
If you're stuck in the tunnel, you g..." More »
It's not just the Pirate Bay that's feeling the sting of High Court-infused blocking orders. Three more torrent sites, KickassTorrents, H33T and Fenopy, have been given the special treatment thanks to the BPI, just like TPB, with BT, Virgin, O2 and Be already blocking them off the face of the UK internet. Read More >>
Featured comment by Sharky66:
"Yes, it is the same thing - I like it as it's easy to use, not expensive and gives a wide choice of servers to access." More »
EE's extending its 4G rollout into the Cumbrian countryside meaning those without fibre, or even 'high speed' broadband for that matter, could just hook onto the wireless waves of LTE instead, with average speeds around 8-12Mbps and peaks of 20Mbps. Has rural high-speed internet finally arrived? Read More >>
All of us want ultrafast, super-speedy fibre broadband, right? Downloading films in the time it takes you to open a packet of popcorn and streaming video without having to pointlessly punch the side of the computer in an attempt to get it to work? Oh yes. Read More >>
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