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This Wireless Modem Set is neat. Plug the base station into a phone socket and the receiver into a spare USB port and the unit uses Bluetooth to bridge ...
Dial-up modems used to be the default way of accessing the Internet, but times have moved on. They’re now largely esoteric relics from a time gone by. With regular old phone lines rather hard to ...
The dulcet tones of a modem handshake may be a thing of the distant past for most of us, but that hasn’t stopped there being a lively hacking scene in the world of analogue telephones. Often … ...
The Sierra Wireless Compass 597 is the ultimate cellular data modem combo. The device folds high-speed data access and GPS service into a tiny USB cell modem and pairs it with new Mac OS X ...
Back in the days of dial-up, your computer performed a symphony just to get online. Here’s what every bleep, screech, and ding actually did.
It was too expensive to include both a 56k dial-up modem and an ethernet port, and after a meeting with Bill Gates, the team decided to include only an ethernet port to make the Xbox prepared for ...
Well, I have an old Bullet e336rxv modem now wanted atleast a 56k modem and bought a ELSA microlink 56k Fun USb. (only analog possible in my area)- About my box: a7v, amd-t900with Windows 98 ...
Dial-up modems may no longer be doubling in speed each year as they did over the past decade. However, the modem industry continues to innovate and is delivering significant new advances in ...
One of the users I supports is setting up a B+W G3 at his home, but it doesn't have an onboard modem. Can anyone recommed an external or internal modem with good OS9 compatibility? The last Mac ...
What does modem status signals actually mean? Find out inside PCMag's comprehensive tech and computer-related encyclopedia.
If you were born after wifi, the dial-up modem noise is what electronics used to sound like: dated, from the era of the fax machine and the non-customizable ringtone. To me, it’s more than that ...
It was too expensive to include both a 56k dial-up modem and an ethernet port, and after a meeting with Bill Gates, the team decided to include only an ethernet port to make the Xbox prepared for ...