Your best is one that your cable company supports, check their site for a list, preferably the model your cable company rents. This is mainly to avoid any possible compatibility problems. Also your ...

Depending on how long "several years" is exactly, there could be really good reason to upgrade your modem, or no reason at all. Still, the quick answer is that yes, there are some differences between ...

This has been perplexing me lately. I have had many clients over the years and used a cable ISP personally for a short period and noticed that cable modems just go out intermittently and need to be ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." If you get Internet service from your cable company, you’ve probably noticed it’s not cheap, and it’s ...

Yes, you can buy your own cable modem, and you might want to, given the excellent throughput and dead-simple setup of the Netgear C3000 WiFi Cable Modem Router. Router only supports up to 300Mbps ...

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, ...

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 ...

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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 ...