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, ...

A device used to connect one or more computers to a cable company's Internet service. The same coaxial cable coming into the house or office also provides TV and voice over IP (VoIP) service. Compared ...

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A high-speed Internet connection is no longer a luxury for most businesses; it's a necessity. As a result, many businesses now use broadband cable connections to surf and work over the Web at ...

The device shown in Figure 17-1 is an RS-232–to–TTL converter board, designed to allow a PC with a serial (RS-232) port to communicate with a device that has a console (TTL) port. External converters ...

An Oregon hardware hacker and author has been hit with federal criminal charges arising from his longstanding business of selling unlocked cable modems that can be used to steal extra speed from a ...

ANSWER: The computer world has its share of misinformation. One is the measurement of the 56K modem, which rarely delivers a speed of more than 50K. You have to read the fine print to discover these ...

A cable modem provides your business with high-speed access to the Internet. Many cable Internet service providers will set up your computer for you when they perform your service installation. If, ...

Editor's Note: To view a PDF version of this article, Click Here. A wave of cable modem chips meeting Revision 1.1 of the Data Over Cable Service Interface Spec (Docsis) enables the type of functional ...