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, ...

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A cable modem bridges a connection between a subscriber's place of business or residence and an Internet service provider's cable modem termination system. The modem allows an Ethernet-compatible ...

Your 16-Mbit cable connection is going to look awfully puny when a new generation of 10-Gbit cable modems enter the scene—whenever that turns out to be. On the other hand, there’s good reason to ...

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 post was done in partnership with The Wirecutter, a list of the best technology to buy. Read the full article below at TheWirecutter.com. A great cable modem should support at least eight ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last week, I explained how Comcast’s (NASDAQ:CMCSA) and (NASDAQ:CMCSK) broadband customers who buy their own cable modem are earning 11% per month on their investment. I estimated that as much as 25% ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...