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

Never mind that these “worlds” did not yet exist in 1979. Modem marketing conjured a desirable vision of the near future, specially crafted for computer enthusiasts.

DSL modems typically connect to the computer or router via Ethernet; however, some DSL modems connect to one computer via USB. In addition, the DSL modem is often combined with the router (see ...

How to Use a Modem & Computer as a Telephone. If you want to avoid the expense of a traditional landline in your workplace, consider using a computer plugged into an active modem as your phone ...

In the late 1950s, AT&T developed the first commercial, mass-produced computer modem, then called a “digital subset” (shown here, circa 1958), to link SAGE computers across the United States.

The modem your ISP gave you probably gets the job done, but let’s face it: You can do better. Plus, if you shop around you can probably find a better modem than the one your ISP sent you. Your ...

The First Civilian Commercial Computer Modem In 1962, AT&T introduced the Bell 103 Data Phone (seen here), which set the standard for 300-baud (approximately 300-bps) full-duplex modems.

The request had to pass through the router, and, pass it did. From a computer with a local IP address of 192.168.4.5, I was able to communicate with the modem. This is an interesting gray area.

Three PC Card modems make this possible: Novatel Wireless’s Merlin and Merlin for Ricochet and Nextcell’s Spider II let you connect to the Web via cellular data networks.

“Fame means when your computer modem is broken, the repair guy comes out to your house a little faster.”–Actress Sandra Bullock, a computer buff who plays a hacker in her latest film, “The ...

The fastest computer modem in 2001 is slower than the slowest of the new versions, he said. In 1998, the fastest Internet service was 1 megabit per second, he said.