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 Click Computer Articles by Chris Holgate is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 UK:England &Wales License. | One of the biggest growth areas for home computing this decade has been the humble network. At the turn of the century it was most often the case that we used a single machine connected directly to a phone line whereas now it would be rare to find a home that hasn’t been networked to [...] There is a new breed of superfast broadband approaching which will be welcome news to the majority of the British public that are currently stuck with a maximum top speed of 8Mbps. It is undeniable that Broadband take-up in the UK has been huge;the majority of the public now access the Internet via a [...] Transferring information between computers is easier now than it ever has been. I remember back in the days of my Commodore 64 when it was near impossible to exchange information between different machines unless they were of exactly the same manufacturer and model and had compatible peripherals. Modems were primitive devices that few had access [...] Home networking has experienced a massive growth just recently as it is becomes much more common for households to own more than one computer. For those that own several machines the advantages of connecting them together in the form of a network are obvious;you can share yours files,printer and Internet connection with others [...] Distributed computing has been around for very many years. Some of my more long term readers will remember that way back in 2002 I featured a program called SETI @ Home which was designed to use the power of thousands of home computers together in order to search for extra-terrestrial radio signals amongst the stars. [...] After spending last week look at a dial up Internet accelerator which wasn’t recommended for broadband I thought this week that I’d do the opposite and take a look at a similar piece of software designed for broadband but not dial up connections. Google Web Accelerator [...] You know you’ve struck a cord with the general public when you get stopped in the street by people you’ve never met who ask you how your installation of ADSL is going. For those of you who haven’t seen my last couple of articles,I’ve been running a feature [...] | |||||
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