The port can be used for trickle charging as well as for modem tethering to a computer.

这个接口可以用于充电或将手机作为调职解调器连接计算机。

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Around 25 percent of the world's computer users now have at least a cable modem or DSL connection; of course, this implies that speed is no longer an issue.

现在，世界上大约 25% 的计算机用户至少有一条光纤调制解调器或者 DSL 连接，当然，这意味着速度不再是问题。

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It is important that you use a null modem cable; if you use a typical serial cable, the target computer expects a serial device and not another serial port, and you cannot debug the computer.

有一点很重要，那就是要使用零调制解调器电缆，如果您使用普通的串行电缆，目标计算机则期望与串行设备通信，而不是与另一个串行端口通信，这样您就无法调试该计算机。

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Third-generation wireless (the first two were analog and the current version of digital) can move data at 384 kilobits a second, six times the speed of a good computer modem.

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When Assange turned sixteen, he got a modem, and his computer was transformed into a portal.

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To upload the data to a computer, a patient holds a small wand over his chest that picks up the data and transmits it through a modem to a Medtronic computer bank. (Future versions will be totally automatic and transmit wirelessly.) For now doctors mostly use the device to perform routine checkups remotely or to evaluate the device after it fires up.

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