Digital connections are now essential to important parts of our lives, such as our work and healthcare. Interrupting service ...

While Wi-Fi and wireless internet are often conflated as the same thing, your Wi-Fi not working may not necessarily mean you ...

Most people use the word “Wi‑Fi” when they really mean “internet,” and that mix‑up quietly shapes how we shop for service, troubleshoot outages, and even argue with our providers. The real split is ...

In the early days of home internet, a phone line was the key to accessing the world wide web. A lot has changed since then, and many homeowners and internet providers have left the landline behind in ...

Sick of slow, expensive, or unreliable internet service? You probably are. Internet service providers (ISPs) came second to last in a study of customer satisfaction by industry in the US last year.

As a writer for Forbes Home since 2021, Emily specializes in writing about home warranties, solar installations, car transportation and moving companies. With a background in journalism and experience ...

Learn how ADSL provides high-speed internet over phone lines, its benefits over cable, and its widespread availability, ideal for both home and rural areas.

The internet is not what you think it is. For one thing, it is not nearly as newfangled as we usually conceive of it. It does not represent a radical rupture with everything that came before, either ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dani Di Placido covers film, television, and internet culture. Have you heard of the Dead Internet Theory? It’s been gaining ...

Thirty years ago, the baby web was just starting to go mainstream, but you could already see a pixelated vision of the world to come. In 1994, the modern Internet (which was almost always capitalized ...

The cost of home internet has become a growing concern for U.S. households as reliable connectivity becomes essential for remote work, online learning and streaming entertainment. But with so many ...