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A dial-up modem may be a plug-in card inside the computer, or it may connect to a serial or USB port.
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What is the fastest type of port available?
Waffles
What is the fastest type of port available today?
Waffles
Modems use what type of transmission?
asyncronous
Is usb ports the same as serial ports?
No. The term serial port refers to the older 9 or 25 pin, male connectors on the back of a PC. They were used for connecting to modems, certain printers, and mice.A USB port, while it is technically a type of serial port, it is incompatible with the old type of serial port. A USB port gets information about the device from the device, while the old type serial port simply transmitted data. USB to serial adapters do exist, but compatibility can be a challenge.
What is virtual com port?
A virtual port is a software emulation of a port which normally would be present in hardware. This is most commonly used with modems and printers. Many internal modems emulate a COM port. When modems first became common by far the most common type was an external modem which plugged into a serial port (a COM port) in the back of the machine. Nearly all of the early dial-up networking applications were written with the assumption that the modem could be found on one of these COM ports. While it is no longer necessary for the modem to reside on a COM port, most new modems still emulate one in order to maintain compatibility with these legacy applications. Printers can also reside on a virtual port for much the same reasons. All printers used to plug into a parallel port (an LPT port) on the computer. As a result many legacy programs were written with the assumption that any printers would be located on an LPT port. When USB printers became commonplace it became necessary to allow these USB printers to be assigned a virtual parallel port in order to maintain compatibility with these older programs. This can be configured in the OS in the printers settings and is most often used for DOS-level point-of-sale or data-entry applications.
What is bell modems?
a old type bell they use back in he days
A modem is a device that is used for what?
A modem is a device that modulates signals to encode digital information and demodulates signals to decode the transmitted information. It the "thing" that you needed to connect to the internet.
Which PC card type is typically used for network adapters and modems and for adding firewire and scsi ports?
Type ii
What type of PCMCIA slot is used for a laptop Modem?
Type II PCMCIA slots are used by most PCMCIA modems.
Is a parallel port a type of computer port?
Yes.
Analog modem use which type of connector?
The type of connector is used by the analog modems is RJ11 or RJ45.
Which type of modems is better wireless or cable?
Those are 2 different things. There are cable modems and DSL modems. Wireless refers to a type of network which can be based either on a Cable modem or a DSL modem. You can have a wired network, or a wireless network. Wireless networks have typically have had slower transfer rates than wired networks, but the technology is changing so wireless routers are becoming faster in transferring data.
