Tag: Broadband
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Netflix Launches It’s Own Internet Speed Checker – FAST.com
It’s quite possible that Netflix may finally be fed up with the volume of calls regarding its online streaming service not performing correctly on certain smart devices – or that’s what we’d suspect based on the new website it’s set up to track broadband data speeds and present them in relation to the Netflix minimum requirements. […]
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LiFi – The Light side of the Wi-Fi
Since the dawn of local networking, engineers have been constantly trying to improve speeds, connection types and the security of those connections. Things have moved forward quite a lot since the days of having 6 CRT monitors laying around your living room as you try to connect up all your friends pcs’ for a LAN […]
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Google Project Loon Almost Ready
We’ve talked quite a bit about Google’s balloon powered internet project, known as Project Loon, recently. The initiative is attempting to put balloons up in the sky on an orbit around the Earth which will hopefully be able top broadcast internet to the people below. New batteries, balloons and other wireless tech have all been […]
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Facebook’s Internet Drone Detailed
Facebook’s cool delta wing drone is on the way, it’s designed to bring internet to various parts of the world via lasers. The drone is part of internet.org, an initiative from Facebook to bring the flying internet and other related technologies to the third world and beyond. The Aquila drones themselves are of a delta […]
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Virgin Readying £3b Broadband Investment
Super fast broadband hasn’t taken off as fast as we’d have liked in the UK. Indeed it’s mostly limited to large urban areas and through rather expensive packages, both of which have hampered the numbers of people getting on board with the high speed offerings from ISPs. However, Virgin, one of the biggest providers of […]
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Now TV – How to Solve Virgin Media WIFI Error 014
Now TV is becoming increasingly popular as an alternative to expensive Smart TVs, offering all the major on-demand services including BBC iPlayer, ITV Player and 4OD at the cost a little shiny box with additional Sky TV content available as optional extras. The box requires nothing more than a TV with HDMI support and a […]
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Sky Internet Filter Enabled As Default Option
If you’re a Sky internet customer you may have already had some experience with the company’s internet filter. The provider lets users select whether they want to filter adult and questionable content as an option through the company’s website through their profile. Upon activation, websites deemed harmful to young people are blocked from access, which […]
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Google Can Launch 20 Loon Balloons Daily
Google’s Project Loon is an ambitious project out of Google X, the company’s ‘moonshot’ product department who specialise in cutting edge, groundbreaking future technology. Now the company has revealed that they now could be launching up to 20 Loon balloons daily. SEE ALSO: Apple reportedly planning to force rebranded Beats Music on all iPhones Project […]
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Google Play Store Down for Virgin Media Customers
The Gadget Helpline has been receiving reports of problems downloading apps and content from the Google Play Store for Virgin customers in the UK only. This follows a weekend of YouTube difficulties which still appear to be causing videos not to complete buffering. So far we have established that Virgin broadband subscribers / Play Store […]
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Sky Service app manages your accounts on mobile
BSkyB has launched an easy-to-use app for customers to manage all their account settings on the move. The app is called simply Sky Service and is available now on Android and iOS devices and it allows users to check the service status of phone and broadband, TV and Sky Go also manage their subscription, pay […]
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BT Sport will stay free for BT Broadband customers over 2014 / 2015 Season
BT has announced that after this year’s successful launch, they will be extending their Free BT Sports offering to BT Broadband customers for another sporting season. We say season, as the service will be operating from September 2014 to August 2015 as per Premiership Rugby and Premier League Football, and since the Sporting channel has […]
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Virgin Media to deliver 19 times faster broadband service
Virgin Media has begun boosting its broadband speeds for customers across Britain today with a new maximum of 152Mbps available. Over twelve million broadband subscribers will benefit from recent improvements to the Virgin Media network and the upgrades will eventually be delivered to all customers in the coming months. In a press release Virgin Media […]