Three years earlier, he gave this circuitous, hour-long talk, laying out the long-running war between evolving information technologies from the piano roll to the telegraph to the modem, and how the established institutions that are disrupted by those technologies have sought to stifle them.
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Setting up a wireless network in the home requires at least two components: a wireless hub, which connects to the modem (DSL or cable) or server PC, and a client device such as a PC insert card, which connects to the hub.
Yamaha PSR3000Yamaha's latest "home keyboard" models (if you were going to diss on them you'd definitely be calling them organs rather than synthesizers) come with the ability to hook up to a DSL modem and download new songs to pick out on said keyboard, karaoke tunes with lyrics to sing along to, or just muzak.
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Every time it needed to process a credit card, it would use a telephone modem to log into the bank.
This one promises download speeds of up to 42Mbps and upload speeds approaching 5.76Mbps, with a swiveling design that allows the body of the modem to be tucked up against the side of the notebook and protects it from being damaged by accidental bumps.
Simply plug in the 3G USB modem to TL-MR3020 and establish a Wi-Fi hotspot instantly.
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It is the first Icera modem to implement 4G LTE in NVIDIA's software defined radio baseband processor.
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They are not much different than the 1970s-era dumb terminals that dialed by modem to connect with mainframe computers.
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First you connect one of these HomePlug devices to a broadband modem or router and then into a wall socket.
It has an Ethernet port so you can easily connect it to a cable modem or digital subscriber line (DSL).
However, municipal clerks send their election night results by dial-up modem to the county clerk, where they are tabulated and stored.
FedEx generally uses a GPRS cellular modem to upload data from a courier's handheld computer to the company's servers, allowing it to keep up-to-the-minute tracking information.
Emerging data services like VoIP, in which a user plugs a phone handset into a special cable modem to make calls, are also starting to catch on.
Once we made the right connections--connecting the DSL modem to the router, then the router to the PC--we opened a Web address that brought up a configuration window in the PC's Web browser.
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.
As long as BT controls the "local loop", the last link from the network to a phone or modem, and insists on metered access, it hardly pays to offer unmetered web deals.
The one thing that appears to be missing is support for cable modem connections, which to date still far outnumber DSL connections.
FreedomPop is now accepting orders and expects to ship its home modem next month.
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AMIMON's WHDI technology uses a unique video-modem approach to deliver wireless uncompressed HDTV.
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Ideally, that machine would have no network connection (as it would be a prime break-in target), and be reported to via null-modem serial cable only.
And while Microsoft currently offers digital subscriber line (DSL) Internet access in conjunction with its MSN online service, it needs a cable modem offering to drive more traffic to all of its Web properties.
The problem for broadband users is that relatively few homes have the home network needed to connect both a PC and a handful of other devices to a single cable modem or digital subscriber line.
Apparently, Comcast's CEO was able to demonstrate such a modem in front of the public and cable competitors alike, and while he claimed that it could reach speeds of 150Mbps, it was the testing that got everyone all riled up.
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Perhaps hitting closer to home were the comments of Chairman Joe Barton (R-Tex.), who told Whitacre in his opening comments how he's shutting off service on a phone line coming into his house and planning to use a cable modem for Internet access.
All the components to make the chip, including modem, antenna, microprocessor and memory, can be fabricated as a single unit helping to keep unit costs low.
Gogo also recently announced that it will partner with AeroSat to deliver the satellite antenna, radome, antenna control and modem unit and high power transceiver to Gogo.
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Most phones that support Bluetooth can act like a modem and connect to an ISP.
Why let one machine have fast access and force the other to use a creeping dialup modem?
Should any customers continue to experience difficulty in accessing their broadband service, they are advised to turn their hub or modem off and on again.
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