A modem and router work in tandem to deliver you an internet connection and then grant access to your various devices.

A few of us are having a debate over how the whole process actually works. Namely, whether the IP is bound to the modem itself or the NIC. On one side of things, it's been mentioned that DHCP passes ...

If you came of age in the 1990s, you’ll remember the unmistakable auditory handshake of an analog modem negotiating its connection via the plain old telephone system. That cacophony of screeches and ...

Q I switched my Dell PC from Windows Vista to Windows XP in order to go from a dial-up Internet connection to a faster broadband connection from AT&T. Now I want to go back to dial-up access to save ...

The hope is that Apple can maintain tighter integration between future 6G modems and its own hardware — and have a far better negotiating position with modem makers. Apple has thousands of engineers ...

Question: I switched my Dell PC from Windows Vista to Windows XP in order to go from a dial-up Internet connection to a faster broadband connection from AT&T. Now I want to go back to dial-up access ...