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Home and Office Internet Connectivity If you're using your home phone line for internet connection, it's likely that you're connected to an ADSL line (Asymmetric DSL)  but there are other variants of DSL that may be available in your area, with VDSL currently being rolled out across the UK offering much higher upload and download speeds.

Several new exploits have been identified recently that are designed to attach your home or business router from inside, and install code to allow hackers a backdoor to your network and your data. The exploits are designed to get into a network either by infecting devices that go outside of your firewall, such as mobiles, tablets and laptops, or by tricking the user into downloading a malicious file. Once inside the network, the malware gets to work on your firewall, attempting to inject code into the firewall that will allow external code to be added to innocent web pages. So you might be viewing the BBC site for example, and the code adds advertising and other unwanted scripts to the page as it passes through your firewall, meaning the page you see if very different from the one served up by the BBC servers.