Voice over IP is increasingly popular and it's not difficult to see why. Get yourself some free software and a headset of some kind, and you can make free calls to anyone, anywhere, over the Internet. ...

There are several ways of using Voice over IP (VoIP) to make cheap phone calls via a broadband Internet connection. Some require a PC, others a specialised router or dedicated IP phone. Then there's the Sipura ...

When it comes to networking, the undisputed top dog for performance is Gigabit Ethernet. Ethernet on steroids, it hurtles along at up to 10 times the speed of its 100Mbps predecessor. As such it's the de ...

Zyxel is a popular choice when it comes to both home and small business routers with a range of fixed and wireless products to choose from. The company also sells a wireless IP phone and recently ...

Like Draytek's Vigor 2500V, the ZoomTel X5v is an affordable router for both consumers and small businesses looking to add single-line VoIP capabilities to their Internet connectivity. It also comes bundled with credit for calls made ...

Made in Sweden, the Intertex IX66 is a little wonder of a device with a huge amount to offer, both as a router and, uniquely, also as an SIP server. Moreover, by downloading optional add-on software, ...

The Draytek Vigor 2500V (distributed by SEG Communications in the UK) is aimed at the same home and small business market as the Billion router. As such it offers much the same VoIP functionality with a ...

A small yet successful UK distributor of broadband routers and VoIP equipment, Solwise sent in a Billion 7100SV for this group test; a low cost VoIP-enabled router which can be used by home users and small ...

Sharing data across a network is great. It means everyone who has access can do things like see photos, listen to music and work on documents, no matter what computer they are actually stored on. Unless, ...

Power over Ethernet (PoE) is one of those technologies which, although intrinsically worthwhile, doesn't fire the imagination. That's because all it does is deliver power to network devices via their data cables. In practice, however, that ...

Like most things with 'travel' in the name, the 3Com OfficeConnect Wireless 54Mbps 11G Travel Router is a very compact device. Indeed, despite the long name, it's one of the smallest routers around, and one of ...

Networking company D-Link has come up with a networked product that crosses over from the world of wireless networking into the Audio Visual arena. The DSM-320 Wireless Media Player is such an unusual product that D-Link ...

Thin clients are a good way of providing secure, easy to manage access to task-oriented applications. They are often found, for example, controlling stock levels in warehouses or accessing patient records in hospitals, indeed anywhere where ...

To connect a printer to a network without a host PC or file server, you need a dedicated print server. To connect it wirelessly, you need a print server with a wireless networking interface - which ...

Netgear makes a number of 'routers with a difference'. This one is a very fast (108Mbps) router, into which you can plug a USB device. More on that later. We didn't have too many problems setting ...

Neoware offers a range of thin client appliances that can be used to run applications hosted on remote Windows servers. Some of these are Linux-based while others are built around Windows CE or XP Embedded (XPE). ...

After the years of controversy, nay-saying and all round pessimism that have dogged the development of 3G mobile phone services, it still seems a little surprising that the technology ever made it into actual, real live ...

Equiinet aims to solve a range of small business problems using network appliances, delivered pre-configured to perform a specific task. SentryPilot is its network security solution, designed to add anti-virus, anti-spam and content filtering tools in ...

Hang on to your hats. Although this 3Com OfficeConnect ADSL Router is aimed at the small office market, it could very well prove to be the ideal home networking product for home users who have broadband. ...

Who worries about setting up a modem these days? You just plug it into the wall and it works. Three or four years ago things were a lot more complicated, but now you expect it all ...