Manage your home network with a little help from Zyxel

Connect up to four machines with this Powerline switch kit

Home networking the easy way

Virgin uses its fancy cable to offer great on-demand services

Is Tiscali's on-demand service as comprehensive as it is easy to use?

BT's on-demand service has flexible pricing, but is it good value?

Sky's VoD service is full of HD goodness

Wyplay looks to dominate your living room by combining a twin-tuner DTT PVR with an HD multimedia server

The media streamer that plays everything - but is it any good?

PC makers have been trying - and failing - for years to marry their computer boxes with your living room TV. Will this latest attempt by TVBlob be any different?

Play downloaded movies and music on your living room TV

Wireless 3G, Mobile Broadband… there are an ever-increasing number of names for constantly being connected. The technical specification of the Sierra Wireless Compact 885 USB modem is impressive, as it is a UMTS with HSDPA Category 8 device, so allows for a theoretical 7.2Mbps download speed and 2Mbps upload link.

The first wave of commercially available satellite broadband devices are here, but are they any good?

This tiny NAS bridges the gap between the documents on your Mac and the web

The BT I-Plate is an add-on to your standard BT telephone master socket that claims to boost broadband speed by cutting out noise on your line.

REVIEW: Western Digital's place in the hard disk market isn't really arguable; it's a company that almost never fails to impress, whether it's inside or outside of your PC. The MyBook and WorldBook have built it a solid reputation among external drive aficionados, and the Raptor and Velociraptor internal drives - running at 7200 and 10,000 rpm respectively - are some of the world's fastest.

Linksys, a division of Cisco Systems – the supplier of just about everything technical at Jack Bauer’s CTU (and don’t we know it) – has released the first official Media Center extenders in the UK (Xbox 360-excepted) and the DMA2200 is unique in that it also contains an upscaling DVD player.

An HD Ready media player, the compact Linux-based MX-780HD can store media locally on a self-installed HDD. This isn’t included, but FAT32/NTFS-formatted drives of up to 1 terabyte in size are supported.

As its name suggests, this is a fast Gigabit Ethernet NAS drive, based on a single SATA II hard drive in capacity choices ranging from 250GB to 750GB. Iomega do actually make a 1TB version of the drive as well, but this includes two hard disks with RAID options, at about twice the price.

The uncommonly quiet-running Freecom Network Drive Pro makes the most of the cooling properties of its stylish aluminium case for reduced fan speed and noise. Features such as soft shut-down after a selected number of hours make the drive even more eco-friendly and easy to live with, and initial setup is simplicity itself.

Available in capacities of between 1TB and 2TB, this drive is about twice the price of most rivals, but then it does include two hard drives rather than one.

This Freecom device is a rather unique NAS drive and comes complete with a built-in wireless router, making it a good option if you don't have a wireless router already.

Home Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices are at last becoming sleek enough for people to want to use in their home. Netgear has worked wonders with this tidy-looking 500GB device, which can be expanded to 1TB.

With the move to smaller sub-notebooks such as the Asus Eee PC, HP Mini-Note and the MSI Wind, there's now a much more realistic demand for internet access on the move

The iPhone has proved a point: we love being connected to the internet wherever we are, and whenever the fancy or the need strikes us. And the only way that we can do that reliably is to connect to the mobile phone network