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), ...

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 ...

Long before the vwip! of iMessage and the funky beats of the Skype startup song, digital communication had a strange soundtrack. Dial-up modems, which connected to servers and other computers via ...

NETGEAR just announced a $250 high performance router with an embedded DSL modem supporting ADSL/ADSL2/ADSL2+ and VDSL/VDSL2 speeds. The new Nighthawk AC1900 WiFi VDSL/ADSL Modem Router also offers ...

Telecom companies, startups, and others have been promising high-speed broadband Internet connections to our PCs for several years, yet only a fraction of homes and small businesses actually have that ...

1. Western Digital 80GB SE 7200RPM HDD (with 8MB cache), new, still sealed, 3-yr warranty (very rare nowadays): $90 shipped FedEx ground<br><br>2. Crucial 256MB PC2100 DDR sticks, used (Micron chips).