Modem
noun
A device that allows a computer to send and receive data over phone or cable lines.
You need a modem to connect your computer to the internet.
Often appears as...
- connect with a modem
- modem speed
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A device that allows a computer to send and receive data over phone or cable lines.
You need a modem to connect your computer to the internet.
Often appears as...
- connect with a modem
- modem speed
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Technological Artifact
Modem is a technical term often found in discussions about internet and network connectivity.
My internet was down until the technician replaced the modem.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Device
A modem is a physical object, not a virtual concept, that connects to your computer or router.
I placed the modem on a shelf next to the router.
Pro Tip 3/3Necessity for Internet
Without a modem, you cannot access the internet using traditional broadband services.
To get online, make sure your modem is plugged in and turned on.
Pro Tip 1/3Technological Artifact
Modem is a technical term often found in discussions about internet and network connectivity.
My internet was down until the technician replaced the modem.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Device
A modem is a physical object, not a virtual concept, that connects to your computer or router.
I placed the modem on a shelf next to the router.
Pro Tip 3/3Necessity for Internet
Without a modem, you cannot access the internet using traditional broadband services.
To get online, make sure your modem is plugged in and turned on.
Pro Tip 1/3Technological Artifact
Modem is a technical term often found in discussions about internet and network connectivity.
My internet was down until the technician replaced the modem.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Device
A modem is a physical object, not a virtual concept, that connects to your computer or router.
I placed the modem on a shelf next to the router.
Pro Tip 3/3Necessity for Internet
Without a modem, you cannot access the internet using traditional broadband services.
To get online, make sure your modem is plugged in and turned on.
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David Pogue: Cool new...
Basically you take an ordinary telephone, you plug it into this little box that they give you and the box plugs into your cable modem. Now, it works just like a regular phone. So you can pick up the phone, you hear a dial tone, but its just a fake-out. It's a WAV file of a dial tone, just to reassure you that the world hasn't ended. It could be anything. It could be salsa music
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Mind Blown - Hangout to...
fixed at least until we have some kind of technological singularity or a human tech sort of coeval you know symbiosis that allows us to extend the capacities of the brain beyond their current limits we have true you know bandwidth limitations you know it's like your brain is like a 56k modem and we're
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Juliana Rotich: Meet...
Could we leverage these technologies to switch smartly whenever you travel from country to country? So we looked at the modem, an important part of the infrastructure of the Internet, and asked ourselves why the modems that we are using right now are built for a different context, where you've got
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Small rockets are the...
So I want to tell you a little bit of a story, and this is going to date me, but I went to a school at the very bottom of the South Island in New Zealand, tiny little school, and we had a computer not dissimilar to this one. And attached to that computer was a little black box called a modem,
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Steven Johnson: The Web...
It's caused a lot of controversy because people thought that this was the ultimate kind of one man, one modem democracy, where anybody can get out there and get their voice heard. And so the question is, "Why is this happening?" It's not being imposed by fiat from above.
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What's in Conditioner? PIPE...
dimethicone a modem ethic own dimethicone all and cyclo penta siloxane the whole point of any conditioner is to lubricate which makes combing a lot easier and that reduces the forces on the very tips of your hair which is why conditioners help prevent split ends
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WorldSpace: The world’s...
multimedia services the audio basically from the satellite directly to a radio set and then the multimedia so you connect that radio set on computer and then it becomes like a modem that can download data and pretty pretty respectable speeds first voice itself
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Maker space; supporting...
have frequent power blackouts it's very annoying and reliable connectivity and challenging environments so we looked at the modem which is a very important device for us who are very dependent on the internet and said how can we
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Here's What Earthquakes...
could hear earthquakes and and I said I don't think so but we could take the data and speed it up and listen to the whole planet ring after in this place the size modem show is a ongoing project
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Inside a Civil War Most...
Sujit parent reduce emissions condition from the shaky-shaky de las Leona's own separate waffle modem ET comme de la police vilena me the funkiest own
Video examples
David Pogue: Cool new...
Basically you take an ordinary telephone, you plug it into this little box that they give you and the box plugs into your cable modem. Now, it works just like a regular phone. So you can pick up the phone, you hear a dial tone, but its just a fake-out. It's a WAV file of a dial tone, just to reassure you that the world hasn't ended. It could be anything. It could be salsa music
Video examples
Mind Blown - Hangout to...
fixed at least until we have some kind of technological singularity or a human tech sort of coeval you know symbiosis that allows us to extend the capacities of the brain beyond their current limits we have true you know bandwidth limitations you know it's like your brain is like a 56k modem and we're
Video examples
Juliana Rotich: Meet...
Could we leverage these technologies to switch smartly whenever you travel from country to country? So we looked at the modem, an important part of the infrastructure of the Internet, and asked ourselves why the modems that we are using right now are built for a different context, where you've got
Video examples
Small rockets are the...
So I want to tell you a little bit of a story, and this is going to date me, but I went to a school at the very bottom of the South Island in New Zealand, tiny little school, and we had a computer not dissimilar to this one. And attached to that computer was a little black box called a modem,
Video examples
Steven Johnson: The Web...
It's caused a lot of controversy because people thought that this was the ultimate kind of one man, one modem democracy, where anybody can get out there and get their voice heard. And so the question is, "Why is this happening?" It's not being imposed by fiat from above.
Video examples
What's in Conditioner? PIPE...
dimethicone a modem ethic own dimethicone all and cyclo penta siloxane the whole point of any conditioner is to lubricate which makes combing a lot easier and that reduces the forces on the very tips of your hair which is why conditioners help prevent split ends
Video examples
WorldSpace: The world’s...
multimedia services the audio basically from the satellite directly to a radio set and then the multimedia so you connect that radio set on computer and then it becomes like a modem that can download data and pretty pretty respectable speeds first voice itself
Video examples
Maker space; supporting...
have frequent power blackouts it's very annoying and reliable connectivity and challenging environments so we looked at the modem which is a very important device for us who are very dependent on the internet and said how can we
Video examples
Here's What Earthquakes...
could hear earthquakes and and I said I don't think so but we could take the data and speed it up and listen to the whole planet ring after in this place the size modem show is a ongoing project
Video examples
Inside a Civil War Most...
Sujit parent reduce emissions condition from the shaky-shaky de las Leona's own separate waffle modem ET comme de la police vilena me the funkiest own
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Quote examples
Steve Mollenkopf
American Businessman
Power, of course, is very important, but really, there's a bundle of technologies you have to have to make sure they're highly integrated, so you have to have modem, you have to have connectivity, you have to have GPS, you have to have graphics, you have to have CPU.
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Evgeny Morozov
Belarusian Writer
You know, it's not a given that there is an 'online' and 'offline' world out there. When you use the telephone, you don't say that I'm entering some 'telephono-sphere.' You don't say that, and there is no obvious need to say that when you are using a modem.
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Steve Case
American Businessman
And so the idea was, well maybe you can take an Atari video game machine, where people plug in a game cartridge, and plug in a modem, and tie that into a telephone, and essentially turn that game in the machine into an interactive terminal.
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Gavin Esler
Scottish Journalist
What mattered in the cold war was weight - how big are your missiles? How heavy are your tanks? What matters in globalisation is speed. How fast is your modem? How good are you communications?
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Mark Goulston
American Psychologist
Is it possible that the collective global psyche of the world is like an overloaded modem and can no longer meaningfully communicate, comprehend, or listen to anything or anyone else?
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John Patrick
American Playwright
Everything is relative. Is the Internet fast? Not for most people. Is it always on? Yes, for cable modem and DSL users but that represents a tiny percentage of users.
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Henry Samueli
American Businessman
Once you used a computer with a broadband connection, you knew you would never be able go back to the old voiceband modem connection - even if it was free.
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Matt Drudge
American Journalist
With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything.
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Sandra Bullock
American Actress
Fame means when your computer modem is broken, the repair guy comes out to your house a little faster.
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C. L. R. James
Trinidadian Journalist
All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.
Quote examples
Steve Mollenkopf
American Businessman
Power, of course, is very important, but really, there's a bundle of technologies you have to have to make sure they're highly integrated, so you have to have modem, you have to have connectivity, you have to have GPS, you have to have graphics, you have to have CPU.
Quote examples
Evgeny Morozov
Belarusian Writer
You know, it's not a given that there is an 'online' and 'offline' world out there. When you use the telephone, you don't say that I'm entering some 'telephono-sphere.' You don't say that, and there is no obvious need to say that when you are using a modem.
Quote examples
Steve Case
American Businessman
And so the idea was, well maybe you can take an Atari video game machine, where people plug in a game cartridge, and plug in a modem, and tie that into a telephone, and essentially turn that game in the machine into an interactive terminal.
Quote examples
Gavin Esler
Scottish Journalist
What mattered in the cold war was weight - how big are your missiles? How heavy are your tanks? What matters in globalisation is speed. How fast is your modem? How good are you communications?
Quote examples
Mark Goulston
American Psychologist
Is it possible that the collective global psyche of the world is like an overloaded modem and can no longer meaningfully communicate, comprehend, or listen to anything or anyone else?
Quote examples
John Patrick
American Playwright
Everything is relative. Is the Internet fast? Not for most people. Is it always on? Yes, for cable modem and DSL users but that represents a tiny percentage of users.
Quote examples
Henry Samueli
American Businessman
Once you used a computer with a broadband connection, you knew you would never be able go back to the old voiceband modem connection - even if it was free.
Quote examples
Matt Drudge
American Journalist
With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything.
Quote examples
Sandra Bullock
American Actress
Fame means when your computer modem is broken, the repair guy comes out to your house a little faster.
Quote examples
C. L. R. James
Trinidadian Journalist
All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.
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