These two devices help power your home internet connection. It helps to know how they function. Here are the details.

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You'd plug your modem into your home phone line for a dial-up connection with your internet service provider, and then you'd wire the modem to your computer via Ethernet to connect that computer ...

A developer, stuck working on an airgapped computer, developed a virtual modem for connecting to the internet using HTML5 audio.

Each week Joshua Fruhlinger contributes This is the Modem World, a column dedicated to exploring the culture of consumer technology. DNP This is the Modem World The great computer cold war of 1982 ...

A modem ping determines what kind of connectivity your computer shares with another device or a remote host. You can perform this instantaneous check manually; the process takes only a few moments ...