OK here is my story. Got a call in yesterday. The person had a new toshiba satellite laptop with a realtek nic and me. Once she plugged into the cable modem the computer slowed to a crawl. Today ...

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 ...

A device used to connect one or more computers to a cable company's Internet service. The same coaxial cable coming into the house or office also provides TV and voice over IP (VoIP) service. Compared ...

A gateway pulls double duty, but a modem and router combo can give you a lot more flexibility and power.

My mom just called me tonight telling me that she came home this evening and her home office circuit breaker was tripped. The cable modem is burnt, with visible black marks on the outside of the unit, ...

An expert on cable modem hacking has been arrested by federal authorities on computer intrusion charges. According to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Ryan Harris, 26, ran a San Diego company ...

It’s a critical vulnerability in the Broadcom firmware used in an unknown number of cable modems. What could an attacker do with it? If someone managed to compromise your cable modem via Cable Haunt ...

Internet disconnects every few minutesThe other day, I experienced an issue where my home cable TV internet connection would ...

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 ...

A device that connects one or more users to the Internet. Also called a "gateway," it combines the modem, which accesses the ISP, and a router, which forwards traffic to the modem and distributes ...