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 ...

Home routers and cable modems are now extremely powerful devices, but they all suffer from the attention of their manufacturers’ design and marketing departments. Instead of neatly packaging them in ...

Connect the modem to a wall outlet with a coax cable and plug the modem into an electrical outlet. Connect devices to the modem wirelessly, or with an ethernet cable to a LAN outlet on the modem. When ...

I, like many folks here, have residential cable internet. I have a DOCSIS 2.0 cable modem which has served me well for about 2 years, but I just opted to increase my internet speeds beyond what my ...

The cable modem is a small box with blinking lights that attaches to the Time Warner cable line to provide Internet service to the home. A second cable, known as an Ethernet cable, runs from the modem ...

Nutter discusses the pros and cons of T-1 vs. cable for a K-12 school’s Internet access I need to provision Internet access for a K-12 school. The usage is primarily e-mail and Web surfing, so ...