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There are a lot of reasons to cancel service with an ISP or cable TV provider. Perhaps the quality of service has gone done hill. Or maybe a competitor has offered a better deal. It could also be something as simple as moving out of that particular company's service area. Whatever the reason, these companies have become notoriously difficult about
The folks at Wi3 have developed a new and innovative way of using the cable TV co-ax wiring to carry more that just pictures. Jeffrey and Andy find out more from Adam. The Wi3 system replaces the cable wallplate with a modular unit that offers a range of connection or transport options. The first two modules offer twin ethernet ports
A confidential document got leaked out stating the Cox cable has decided to get out of the wireless business. Within 24 hours, Cox officially stated this was true - on March 30th, 2012, Cox will end their wireless service. Back in 2008, Cox bought part of the 700 MHz spectrum to start Cox Wireless. Last year they launched the service,
If you run your Boxee through a computer monitor rather than a flat screen TV, or just don't want to flip to the terrestrial line, well fret no more. Boxee has launched Live TV - a USB dongle that will connect to your cable or antenna so you can watch television straight from the box! The Live TV stick is an
As the UK slowly moves towards turning off the analogue terrestrial TV signal and switching to digital transmissions, it's been overtaken by consumer demand for high definition (HD) broadcasting. The satellite and cable providers, namely Sky and Virgin Media, have been quick to offer HD on their subscription services, but the terrestrial digital broadcast system, Freeview, has been somewhat slower
A few days ago I had a DirecTV HR23 box go belly-up. I awoke one morning to the smell of melted plastic. I didn't open the box, so I don't know what went wrong, but it was obviously something bad. Despite having no LED lights on the front panel there was still power - although it wouldn't even try to
In a press release today, Virgin Media announced that it was trialling 1.5Gb/s cable broadband connections with four media companies in London. Offering 1.5 Gb/s down and 150 Mb/s up, if successful it would be the world's fastest cable broadband and about 240 times faster than the UK average connection speed. The technology will use the same infrastructure as delivered