Old modems have a lot more going for them than it might seem ...

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 ...

Apple ensures that iPhone users have the same great experience activating and using their iPhones no matter which service provider they choose. Why can't Arris do the same for cable modems. Last year, ...

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 ...

The best cable modems reduce your monthly bills since you won’t have to pay your ISP to rent a modem from them. By investing in a modem of your own upfront, those monthly costs won’t add up. You also ...

Okay I did a few searches but couldn't find much on being a mac-user installing a cable modem, so here it goes <P>(my apologies if this has been posted somewhere and my search missed it @_@) <P>Okay ...

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 ...

Last year, Charter was punished by the Federal Communications Commission because it had spent two years preventing customers from using their own modems. As a result, the nation’s second-biggest cable ...

The DOCSIS 3.0 specifications enable cable modems to achieve unprecedented uplink and downlink data rates, and it comes not a moment too soon. The growing market strength of telecommunications service ...

reporting from washington — Thousands of Time Warner Cable Inc. customers who bought their own modems for high-speed Internet service could end up paying to rent one anyway after Charter ...