The cable broadband giant -- available to millions of customers across 41 states -- held the top spot in Ookla's latest speed test report. Trey Paul was a CNET senior editor covering broadband. His ...

A business.com editor verified this analysis to ensure it meets our standards for accuracy, expertise and integrity. DSL, which stands for “digital subscriber line,” uses the same landlines used for ...

Rebecca Brill is a writer whose essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, VICE, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She runs the Susan Sontag's Diary and the Sylvia Plath's Food Diary accounts on ...

Broadband internet is another name for high-speed internet service, usually defined as 25Mbps or faster. There are four major types of broadband internet: cable, DSL, fiber, and satellite. The average ...

If you’re in Reno and you use AT&T as your broadband Internet provider, you’re now unfortunately the latest victim of this whole capped bandwidth nonsense that seems to be taking hold across the US.

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. Verizon ...

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.

I began this review the Vigor 2200 DSL/Cable Router in the same way that I begin every review: by going to the manufacturer’s Web site to get some basic information about the product. It left me a ...

The $99 SpeedStream 2614 has everything you need in a broadband router, and then some. In this case, the “and then some” consists of a built-in print server and a serial port to be used for modem ...