On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column in which we share your stories of delivering excellent tech support amid your colleagues' ambivalence, anger, and ...

Ethernet is the major local-area network (LAN) in which we connect our computers, routers, and printers. It has taken an important role in the industrial engineering world, having become the ...

It is hard to imagine today, but there was a time when there were several competing network technologies. There was Ethernet, of course. But you could also find token ring, DEC Net, EcoNet, and ARCNet ...

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is developing a new standard called G.fin, which could essentially create a novel fibre optic network inside your home in order to improve the speeds ...

Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. A line drawing of the Internet Archive headquarters building façade. An illustration of a magnifying ...

Just wondering. . . why has end user networking been stuck at Gbps for so long? Whether corporate networks, or home networks, we've had Gbps ethernet for what, like 10 years now? It's unusual still to ...

Learning about how infrared remote controls work is a great way to expand your electronics knowledge. That’s because this technology is invisible to our eye, and happening faster than we can ...

One of the general contractors we work with is looking at getting an ADSL connection and was wondering about sharing it across the existing network. They currently have 7 win98 machines on a 10base2 ...