A U.S. company on Monday unveiled its version of a modem that can automatically switch between an 802.11 wireless network and wireless Internet services from commercial carriers. The new card from ...

As the cost of cellular broadband service drops to between $40 to $65 a month, depending on provider and bandwidth, state and local governments are turning to cell modems for mobile computing ...

Lucent Technology Wednesday signed a second company to help meet its expected demand for a faster generation of wireless modems for laptops and handheld devices. The wireless telephone network ...

Huawei Technologies and Sony Ericsson have launched wireless modems for High-Speed Packet Access networks that try to be more than just modems. Huawei’s E180 and the MD400 and MD400g from Sony ...

At one time, users had to buy Ethernet adapters, install them in their desktop computers, and then upgrade them as they moved to a faster version of the networking option. Now when users buy a desktop ...

Red Lion Controls added WiFi capabilities to its Sixnet MobilityPro 5000 line of industrial cellular modems. With the addition of 802.11 b/g wireless local area network (WLAN) functionality, the ...

Yes, you can buy your own cable modem, and you might want to, given the excellent throughput and dead-simple setup of the Netgear C3000 WiFi Cable Modem Router. Router only supports up to 300Mbps ...

A high-speed Internet connection is no longer a luxury for most businesses; it's a necessity. As a result, many businesses now use broadband cable connections to surf and work over the Web at ...

We have high-speed cable Internet service at home and just got a laptop with wireless. The cable company wants $250 to set up and $8 per month to maintain it. Can’t we just connect a wireless router ...

Software Defined Modems will have to continually evolve to solve the processor requirements of the future. The silicon technology companies continue to stay ahead of the curve with ever improving chip ...

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 ...