All Posts Tagged With: "Cable"

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Get Your Cables In Order With CableOrganizer

Out of the blue, I just received 2 ReviewMe sponsored review requests that I accepted. The first one is from cableorganizer.com who sell a wide range of label printers and automatic labelers which can help prevent wires from becoming entangled and generally mixed up.

30Jun2007 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued
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Test Your Broadband Speed For Free

I get a lot of visitors visiting my site looking for a BroadBand Speed test, so I’ve decided to add a Broadband Speed Test to the site.
You can use the test to check that you are getting what you are paying for, or whether you should start looking for a new Broadband ISP [...]

8May2007 | Everton | 41 comments | Continued
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Virgin Media Introduce Speed Caps

Virgin Media are introducing speed capping measures that for users who download large amounts from the Net during peak hours. Peak hours have been defined as 4pm to midnight which is much longer than for most other ISPs, who consider 6pm to 10pm to be the peak.
Virgin claim that only 5% of downloaders will [...]

5May2007 | Everton | 62 comments | Continued
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Sony RHT-G800: Space Saving 46″ TV

I think the Sony RHT-G800 is a great concept. Not only is the RHT-G800 a 46″ TV, but the cabinet has the the home cinema system built into it, which will free up space for other units.
The next problem I’d like my next unit to solve is finding a better way to manage my [...]

26Apr2007 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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CinePlayer DVD Decoder For Vista- Best Quality DVD Playback

I made some progress in the week with my new Home Theatre PC. My new 7950GT graphics card arrived on Tuesday, which totally solved the poor quality video on my 42″ Plasma. The image is stunning and it made me realise that the Samsung monitors on my main PC are very low quality.  [...]

22Apr2007 | Everton | 11 comments | Continued
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Virgin Media Upgrading Broadband Speeds To 20Mb In The UK

I’ve been looking out for a speed increase announcement from Virgin Media ever since the company re-launched last month, and it nearly passed me by as it was only mentioned in passing in the company’s quarterly results. I would have missed it totally if TechDigest hadn’t spotted it.
By the summer all existing 10Mb Virgin [...]

4Mar2007 | Everton | 17 comments | Continued
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BroadbandGenie Relaunches - Find The Best Broadband Deal

Despite saying that I wouldn’t respond to any requests for plugs by email, I’m making an exception in this case as one of my friends is running the company.
BroadbandGenie has just launched a brand new spanking site. It’s so new, you can still smell the paint? What is Broadband Genie you ask? Well, the [...]

2Dec2006 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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ntl:Telewest To Merge With ITV?

I read an interesting report today that claimed that ntl:Telewest are considering a merger with ITV to try and combat its weakness in content, which has always been a major weakness of UK cable, to strengthen its defence against Sky who are now threatening its broadband business.
I don’t know how realistic this rumour is, but [...]

15Nov2006 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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ntl Increase Broadband Speeds To 10MB

ntl have just announced that they are increasing their broadband speeds and making 10Mb the standard speed for all users, starting with the current 3Mb users. The rollout to all users won’t be finished until the end of 2006 which sounds a very long time and will cause a lot of dissatisfaction (my brother [...]

8Aug2005 | Everton | 2 comments | Continued