modem

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Which is actually perfectly possible, especially given that many audio chipsets still have native soft-modem capability built in.

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Quick take

To transmit by modem.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of modem gathered in one view.

verb

To transmit by modem.

noun

(computing) A device that encodes digital computer signals into analog telephone signals and vice versa, allowing computers to communicate over a phone line.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for modem.

verb

To transmit by modem.

noun

(computing) A device that encodes digital computer signals into analog telephone signals and vice versa, allowing computers to communicate over a phone line.

Example sentences

Which is actually perfectly possible, especially given that many audio chipsets still have native soft-modem capability built in.

When sites loaded blazing fast on my 256k DSL modem--faster than they do on my 50 Mbps connection today.

Not that anyone would any more but you can fairly easily administer a unix server over a 56K modem still.

Downloaded it over the 56k modem (couple hundred megabytes) and fiddled around with 3d stuff.

All kinds of people (content oligopolies, politicians, etc.) are unhappy that your modem is currently incapable of ratting out your misbehavior.

Wouldn't it be easier to get $20 USB modem with dedicated antenna connector?

I should proxy all traffic from my WiFi to my DSL modem via another PC and do tcpdump on that!

These flip-out connectors were always the first thing to break on your notebook and would render your only useful connection (modem, ethernet) completely useless.

I remember some old ThinkPads had something like that but it might have been a modem port (RJ11/RJ14 not RJ45).

It's only connectivity was a modem that called IBM when something broke.

I believe it was at 300bps, although we may have had our 2400bps modem by then.

I remember the 56K (56Flex, and the other one by 3Com) modem standard wasn't set yet.

Quote examples

Could you write a "loader" firmware virus that re-downloads a more substantial rootkit via soft-modem with an ultrasonic carrier?

I had time when I was a poor college student/post-college "adult," but I figured semi-efficiently pirating music for 20 years (yes on a 56k modem as well), I'd rather just popcorntime it and go.

I propose the following law: "The size of web pages must expand so that, regardless of CPU and bandwidth improvements, a page will load slower than a Usenet post on a 9.6kbps modem in 1993."

He would leave his computer running all the time, connected to the college's internet connection via modem, and we would occasionally see a flash of a porn pic on his screen and ask "What was that?".