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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Q. My cable company tells me I have to lease a modem. Can I buy my own? Any advice on how I should go about that? A. In the two years since I last covered this topic here, a few things have changed in ...