Most modern smartphones actually run two different operating systems – there’s the one you interact with directly and there’s the firmware running on the modem system-on-a-chip, which is basically ...

There are two other standards that the latest commercial modems require: V.42bis for data compression and V.42 for error correction. A typical commercial modem ...

Faulty modem software is holding up online traffic for Gateway and Hewlett-Packard notebooks owners. As of Wednesday, owners of Gateway's Solo 3350 and of HP's Pavilion N5000 and Omnibook XE3 ...

The PinePhone is an inexpensive smartphone designed to run free and open source operating systems like Manjaro, postmarketOS, Mobian, or Ubuntu Touch. But the phone isn’t 100-percent open hardware: ...

I have owned Version 2 of this Linksys cable modem for awhile now (5+ years). In the status web page for it, it says it supports DOCSIS 1.1. To get the latest speeds from Comcast, I believe I need it ...

In their monthly announcement, among all the cool things Pine64, they talked about the open firmware for PinePhone’s LTE modem. The firmware isn’t fully open – a few parts remain closed. And Pine ...

A set of critical vulnerabilities in Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB) broadband equipment have now all received patches close to two years after being reported. Geneva, Switzerland-based ADB develops ...

I tried to upgrade the firmware on my Dlink 645. After the upload of the new firmware now the modem just blinks, and I can't connect to reinstall the old firmware. I work from home and I'm without ...

Faulty modem software is holding up online traffic for Gateway and Hewlett-Packard notebooks owners. As of Wednesday, owners of Gateway's Solo 3350 and of HP's Pavilion N5000 and Omnibook XE3 ...

The first thing to do here is to clear the confusion between an internet modem and a router. While these two might look similar, and non-tech-savvy individuals often use them interchangeably, these ...