For anyone who experienced it, the screeching hiss of a modem handshaking over copper phone wires is unforgettable. The technology may have tied up the family phone line, but modems were the gateways ...

If you thought you needed broadband to be a part of the wireless generation, think again. The Actiontec Dual PC Modem is a simple hardware device that lets two computers share a dial-up Internet ...

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If your company only has the resources for a single telephone line, you can use it to support a telephone, fax machine and a computer modem. While ideally you would have a dedicated phone line for ...

Got a modem? Well, it’s now officially obsolete. US Robotics Corp., a leading maker of computer modems, said Tuesday that a new technology would allow it to nearly double the speed of today’s fastest ...

Now Illinois Bell is reaching out to touch something, instead of someone. It`s after your home computer, which it would like to make into a telephone customer. One in every four American homes has a ...

The subject of PC modems bring to mind the story of the US patents clerk who in eighteen something or other confidently declared that everything that could be invented, has been invented. . . No ...

My mom just called me tonight telling me that she came home this evening and her home office circuit breaker was tripped. The cable modem is burnt, with visible black marks on the outside of the unit, ...