Connect the modem to a wall outlet with a coax cable and plug the modem into an electrical outlet. Connect devices to the modem wirelessly, or with an ethernet cable to a LAN outlet on the modem. When ...

Everyone needs internet to stay connected, but most people rely on technicians and their more tech-savvy friends and family to set things up. While there's no shame in that, having a basic ...

Last time I noted that, for those of us with separate routers and modems, the IP address 192.168.100.1 may provide access to the modem, through the router. In my limited testing, I found this to be ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. If you’ve got a mesh Wi-Fi network set up in your home, you ...

Telecom operator TeliaSonera has signed a deal for LTE (Long-Term Evolution) modems from Samsung that should help it launch the 4G service commercially in Sweden and Norway in the first half of 2010, ...

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 ...

Is your cable modem dead? You're not alone. Nearly a million subscribers to Excite@Home's cable-modem service (which is sold by companies such as AT&T Broadband and Comcast) lost their high-speed ...

Wi-Fi chips for wireless home networks will be moving in with a roommate: broadband modems. Communications chipmaker Conexant Systems announced Tuesday that it is adding Intersil Wi-Fi chips to the ...

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 majority of 3G and 4G USB modems offered by mobile operators to their customers have vulnerabilities in their Web-based management interfaces that could be exploited remotely when users visit ...

The first members of Sierra Wireless’ Airlink X Platform, the Raven X and PinPoint X intelligent modems, are qualified for use on the Verizon Wireless Evolution-Data Optimized Revision A network. The ...