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# hahahah, would that be a good ol' US Robotics modem?
:D
(I helped save b3ta! theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Mon 9 Mar 2009, 11:50, archived)
# it would be:)
It's always annoys my techie side when you see shops selling broadband modems. Ther's no such thing. A modem is a modulator/demodulator basically it converted digital signals to analog and back.
Braodband is a digital line anyway so a modem isn't needed.
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Mon 9 Mar 2009, 11:51, archived)
# Depends if your phone line is ISDN.
A majority wont be, and will still be analogue.
(I helped save b3ta! Ttssattsr, Mon 9 Mar 2009, 12:02, archived)
# Broadband is a of asynchronous DSL,
ISDN isn't really broadband
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Mon 9 Mar 2009, 12:09, archived)
# Sure, but it's still a digital line. And my point that a majority of houses will have an anologue phone line still stands.
:D :D :D
(I helped save b3ta! Ttssattsr, Mon 9 Mar 2009, 12:11, archived)
# No they have coaxel wiring.
You're confusing that with being nondigital and fibreop being the option for a digital line.

Coax can be digital. A digital signal is just the presance and absence of a property, be it light or electrical enery.
ISDN, I believe, counds as a polyband not a broadband.
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Mon 9 Mar 2009, 12:20, archived)
# Lies!
Broadband is intarweb tubes!
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Mon 9 Mar 2009, 12:03, archived)
# You don't have a techie side
you just fake it using an elaborate web of hoaxes involving Ask Jeeves, Wikipedia simple and an adapted head dobber.
(I helped save b3ta! Jessie © needs pirate name suggestions, Mon 9 Mar 2009, 12:03, archived)
# a broadband head dobber
suitable for multiple simultaneous dobbing
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Mon 9 Mar 2009, 12:14, archived)
# hahah, that sort of thing bugs me too...
a few weeks ago, someone at work was trying to be smart and asked me to save something for her in "PDF format". That really bugged me.

/geekblog
(I helped save b3ta! theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Mon 9 Mar 2009, 12:05, archived)
# Hahaha, neeeerd!
(I helped save b3ta! Ttssattsr, Mon 9 Mar 2009, 12:09, archived)
# Actually...
I'm not certain about cable (the service may be entirely digital), however ADSL works over existing analogue lines, so must use a modem.
(eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Mon 9 Mar 2009, 12:12, archived)
# No
As I explained above coax can sent a digital signal as it is an electronical conduit. Power on=1 power off=0.
Fibre op is faster admittedly but speed is not something were debated atm.
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Mon 9 Mar 2009, 12:23, archived)