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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

March 23, 2020 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google So, without any more delay, here’s today’s question. I’m going to paraphrase it, because a friend posed it the ...

Those of us with separate modems and routers (some Internet connections have the two functions combined into a single device) are likely to focus on the router and ignore the modem. But, like a router ...

I have RCN and I was wondering if anyone else that has RCN for their cable modem servce tried dual cable modems. I was thinking of doing it so we could have more than 1 person at the same time on the ...

It’s a critical vulnerability in the Broadcom firmware used in an unknown number of cable modems. What could an attacker do with it? If someone managed to compromise your cable modem via Cable Haunt ...

I don’t know about all cable companies but Comcast (AKA Xfinity) now charges $14 a month to rent a cable modem. However, depending on the speed of your service, you can buy your own modem for under ...

A device that connects one or more users to the Internet. Also called a "gateway," it combines the modem, which accesses the ISP, and a router, which forwards traffic to the modem and distributes ...