Category: Networks
Product: ADSL service
From: Telus and other regional ISPs (www.telus.net/highspeed)
Prices: starting at $21.95/month
Service Options available: Business service: Static IP addresses suitable for configuring web servers or email systems. Telus provides dial-up and (5) email accounts.
Home service: Self-installed or Telus-installed "consumer...
Email and File Transfer Solutions for your Mobile Phone
Nokia Communicator - A PCS Phone that thinks it's a computer
Product: Nokia Communicator (see http://www.nokia.com/ for more info)
From: Microcell Solutions (www.fido.ca)
Version tested: 1900 GSM (for use in Canada and US)
Price: about C$1500 (US$999). Nokia says the 9000il model...
AOL Canada
America Online customers in the U.S. have an "unlimited use" option that allows them to use AOL's service (including Internet access and members'only services) for any number of hours at as flat rate of US$26.95. Canadians, however, pay C$29.95 for a maximum of 50 hours and don't have access to an unlimited service plan. AOL...
As detailed in our previous ADSL Report, the high-speed Internet Access service provides a lots of bang for the buck: 50 to 150 times faster than a 28.8 dial up modem for less than triple the price of a dial-up account. (BC Tel's Multimedia Gateway ADSL service costs $99 to install; service costs $64.95/mo. for 5 email accounts, 5 hours of dial-up...
CompuServe 4
For frequent fliers and those who regularly travel, having an Internet Service Provider that allows you to dial a local number in a foreign city is a real moneysaver. CompuServe has been, in our tests over the last few years, utterly -- and I mean 100% -- reliable. Built-in dial-up and CompuServe login support in Windows makes...
Planning on improving your Windows NT/2000
NT Exploits
There are a number of NT Security Exploits that are well-known and widely used in the hacker community.
NT-getadmin-exploit
NT-L0phtCrack-exploit
NT-redbutton-exploit
Windows 2000 IIS 5.0 "Unchecked Buffer in ISAPI Extension" exploit
...are just a few of the better-known...
Cable modems represent a good value, and a growing number of people are dumping their modems for the vastly superior performance of a so-called cable modem. But @Home, the major provider of most cable services in Canada and the U.S., officially only supports Windows and Macintosh clients. The question is: can it be used with Linux? The short...
Q: I live in Lethbridge, AB. I am using a Pentium 120, with 32Mb EDO Ram and 2Mb of VRam (Diamond Stealth). Shaw cable and BC-Telus are both coming to town at the same time. Shaw claims 100X faster than a 28.8kbs (is that =2.88Mbs???) modem and Telus says 1.5Mbs. What about when someone is one the phone/fax, what does the speed...
Training for a job in high-tech? Here's what's in demand.
Q: I have owned a computer for some time now and recently acquired my A+ and MCP certifications and am working towards the MCSE and would like to know what electives exams you recommend. I was thinking the two SQL 7 exams, to work towards MCDBA.
My next question...
Windows 2000’s Killer App?
The next version of the Microsoft messaging server formerly code-named Platinum is now officially known as Microsoft Exchange 2000. The product represents a challenging upgrade in that it must be run on a Windows 2000 Server. The new operating system’s underpinnings provide a number of key services to...
Getting your machines to communicate
This article is not intended for those of you that already have a large office network. It is intended for computer users-of PCs or Macs-who have more than one computer in the same location, but have never connected them together.
We'll look at several different methods of getting your machines to talk...
Networking in today's business environment includes everything from web access to printing, so this section may grow to address quite a variety of issues. We welcome your questions on networking and Internet-related issues.
Goodbye, sneakernet
Although networking has gotten a whole lot simpler in the years since Novell first released Netware...
Networking the Small Office
As the old saying goes, many hands make light work, when those hands can share information and resources, the benefits – and savings -- are plentiful. Whether it is to share access to files, printers or networked software resources like an intranet server, group calendar or other client/server application, having...
As most office computer users are already well aware, a network allows the sharing of files, printers and other resources. Now that a growing number of people are setting up small offices at home, many of the same issues are applicable there. Indeed, many of us have upgraded over the last few years to a newer computer but, realizing that the old...
The Need for Speed
Intel's AnyPoint Home Network, as noted elsewhere on this site, allows users to connect PCs by plugging them into a home's existing phone jacks, sending and receiving data at up to 10 megabits per second. That's 180 times faster than a 56 kilobits-per-second modem. 802.11a and 802.11g wireless networks support data transfers up...