Neowin News Feed for: Adsl

Let the ADSL price war begin!

Darren Bolton — Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:53:10 +0000

Only one day after Wanadoo's price drop of its price of 1Mbps ADSL service to just Â£17.99 Plusnet have followed suit. As of the 26th August, Plusnet will be offering 512 ADSL for... Read more...

Telcos bundle ADSL modems

Tue, 05 Aug 2003 10:06:24 +0000

Computer manufacturers have been press-ganged into the hunt for customers in the broadband internet market, with industry heavyweights Telstra and Optus planning to offer services bundled with PCs in time for Christmas. Both... Read more...

April 1 ADSL outage hits ISPs and users

Wed, 02 Apr 2003 15:14:27 +0000

Great April Fools joke, from a company that is a joke! Part of BT's ADSL network was knocked out last night causing disruption to thousands of Net users in the UK. According to... Read more...

UK News: BT to trial 1Mbps ADSL

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 26 Mar 2003 18:25:32 +0000

BT is to trial a new home-based 1Mbps ADSL service in the autumn which, if successful, could be rolled-out as a full commercial service before the end of the year. News of BT's decision to... Read more...

New ADSL chipset enables speeds of 20Mbps

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 17:38:15 +0000

BROADBAND CHIPSET MANUFACTURER Centillium Communications has launched a new ADSL chipset that will make the Net fly. The company's new Palladia 210 chipset for ADSL modems can reach speeds of up to 20Mbps. It will... Read more...

Hundreds of BT ADSL punters axed by mistake

Sun, 05 Jan 2003 04:33:44 +0000

Hundreds of BTopenworld's ADSL customers had their service cut off this week because of a clerical error by the telecom giant's broadband arm. The punters had their connection disconnected on and around... Read more...

Campaigners report titsup ADSL exchanges

Thu, 19 Dec 2002 18:45:31 +0000

Broadband campaigners are spitting feathers after reporting that their recently ADSL-upgraded exchanges don't appear to be working. Net users in Leek and Irby - which had their exchanges converted to ADSL last... Read more...

BT hits 500k subscribers for ADSL

Fri, 29 Nov 2002 00:38:11 +0000

BT is on target to get one million ADSL subscribers by the end of next summer I'm amazed they even have that many members;) Confirmation that it's on course came... Read more...

BT crosses fingers for ADSL fix

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 23 Sep 2002 16:53:53 +0000

BT Wholesale should know this afternoon whether it has been able to fix a problem that has dogged an unknown number of ADSL users for more than 10 days. On September 12... Read more...

UK News: ADSL for under £20

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 03 Aug 2002 09:52:44 +0000

UK consumers can get broadband access for under Â£20 per month for the first time. In the last week, ET Global Solutions launched a rock-bottom residential USB package for Â£18.95 (including VAT)... Read more...

Nildram touts ISDN to ADSL migration

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 02 Aug 2002 16:06:11 +0000

Nildram the UK ISP has set up a migration service for BT ISDN users to upgrade to wires-only ADSL. The conversion process from Highway ISDN to Nildram Home, or Office, ADSL service... Read more...

BT gives Joe Public a say on ADSL

Darren Bolton — Wed, 19 Jun 2002 10:51:37 +0000

Scheme to go live on 1 July BT has set up an online scheme which, it says, will give both service providers and the public a say in the roll-out plans for... Read more...

Pipex gives away free ADSL modem

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 14 May 2002 15:27:14 +0000

Pipex is getting even more aggressive in the broadband marketplace with yet another tempting offer designed to get people to sign-up to its ADSL service. Until June 13 the broadband ISP is offering new customers... Read more...

UK suffers ADSL glitch

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 19 Apr 2002 15:04:28 +0000

Thousands of new ADSL users in the UK could have their services disrupted thanks to a glitch in BT's broadband network. The intermittent problem concerns compatibility issues with the first and second... Read more...

Optus confirms residential ADSL service for Australia

Fri, 19 Apr 2002 13:35:57 +0000

Optus has confirmed it intends to launch a residential ADSL service in Australia if negotiations with Telstra are successful. The confirmation came as the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission announced it would consider strict regulation... Read more...

Competition enters ADSL ring

Mon, 14 Jan 2002 07:18:00 +0000

A Brisbane internet service provider has launched the market's most competitive ADSL package since Telstra introduced its 3GB limit. XiS, which had intended to sell an "unlimited" service, said its offering was the... Read more...

Microsoft buys ADSL equipment from Actton

Wed, 02 Jan 2002 05:09:05 +0000

A report in the Taiwanese Economic News said that Microsoft has placed firm orders for ADSL modems and wireless LAN equipment from local firm Accton. Actton won the order against competition from other Taiwanese firms... Read more...

UK hit by major ADSL outage

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 20 Nov 2001 13:05:17 +0000

Will some one please change the light bulb ;) Britain's broadband ADSL service was plunged into darkness this morning following a catastrophic failure of BT's network. Details are still sketchy but... Read more...

Olitec WinXP Beta Drivers for V90, V92 & ADSL Modems

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 26 Oct 2001 23:40:30 +0000

Olitec, the french modem manufacturer has recently released a bunch of drivers updates so their modems now support the new Microsoft Windows XP. The latest Windows XP beta driver to be released is the one... Read more...