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Australia Post has joined the somewhat crowded field of companies reselling broadband plans, with the company announcing on Tuesday that it would offer eight plans.

Telco Singtel Optus has teamed up with global security provider McAfee to offer its users a solution called Optus WiFi Secure to protect devices connected to a home or business modem/router.

In a role reversal, the organiser of the 30th Anniversary of the Internet Gala Dinner on October 31, Peter Coroneos, interviews Alex Zaharov-Reutt about some of his memories of the Net over the past 30+ years, with both also looking at the Internet's future.

The NBN Co miscalculated when it decided not to supply a modem to each resident on fibre-to-the-node and fibre-to-the-building connections, the head of a small retail service provider says, adding that this could have helped the company diagnose connection issues remotely.

A test of 43 modems used on fibre-to-the-node and fibre-to-the-building NBN connections indicates that use of the 5GHz band is much better than 2.4GHz when it comes to Wi-Fi throughput.

More than 120 D-Link devices are vulnerable to a remote exploit which can lead to takeover by a malicious individual.

Optus has released an aggressive new home wireless broadband solution, pitching it at people like renters who change accommodation regularly. The price and data allowance makes the new plan a viable alternative to fixed line solutions.

Ahead of the NBN FTTN rollout, PCRange has added the VDSL2-capable FRITZ!Box 7360 modem/router to its catalogue.

Telstra has adopted Netgear's C6300BD DOCSIS 3.0 AC1900 Cable Data Gateway, which it is offering as the Telstra Gateway Max.

Virgin Mobile today finally joined its telco rivals in offering a 4G Postpaid Mobile Broadband service.

Fibre to the premises connections in Asia Pacific are expected to exceed DSL in 2014, a technology industry analyst is predicting.

Latest SW/FW version adds stacked VLANs management

Ericsson has released what it says is the first embedded HSPA modem to support 21Mbps downstream bandwidth, and a new version of its 7.2Mbps product with half the power usage of its predecessor.