At first glance, this seems like rather a difficult product to review. It is, after all, just a cable. When you examine the whole package, though, you realise that this humble lead can considerably improve the ...

Once considered the ultimate sign of geekiness, the home network is now becoming commonplace, driven in part by the slow but steady increase in the availability of broadband Internet connections. Given this increasing prevalence of both ...

Wireless networking can make a lot of sense in certain environments, such as private homes and open-plan offices, as you avoid the cost, inconvenience and unsightliness of cables. Wireless adapters and hubs are more expensive than ...

When it comes to networking products, in our minds ease of use is paramount, as these matters can easily get bogged down in a technical morass. Just as well then that the Vigor 2200 is simplicity ...

Whether or not you subscribe to the view that 802.11 and its successors have ridden the coat-tails of Bluetooth hype, it's certainly true that the IEEE's wireless networking protocols have seen much more of the limelight ...

IT journalists tend to be at the forefront of nerdism, and a few years ago it wasn't uncommon to find a squirm* of hacks standing around discussing who had the largest home network. Servers in the ...

The traditional saying goes that nobody got fired for buying IBM equipment, and the same might be said of customers for 3Com's network interface cards. However, 3Com has had to play second fiddle to one of ...

Interest in wireless networking seems to be gathering pace, hanging on the coat-tails of Bluetooth's (deserved or undeserved) hype. Xircom's CreditCard Wireless Ethernet Adapter supports 11Mbps wireless connectivity, conforming to the IEEE 802.11b standard. This means ...

With more and more families and small businesses owning two or more PCs, interest in home networking increases by the week. The advantages of being able to share files, printers, modems - and Internet connections - ...

In the last couple of years we've seen several attempts at wireless connection between computers and peripherals. Infra-red promised to give a cable-free desktop, but stick a cup of coffee in the wrong place and your ...

If you have a small to medium-sized local area network and you want to connect your users to the Internet, there are now plenty of simple and inexpensive solutions for enabling Web browsing or managing e-mail. ...

If you've ever tried transferring large files from one machine to another, then you may have experienced the joys of cable connection. Windows supports direct cable connection and this enables you to link two machines with ...

Some people just won't go along with the crowd. Take Xircom for example. The rest of the PC industry looked at the CompactFlash slots on handheld computers and said "We could fit some extra memory in ...