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RE: Re: OT :Computer to Home Highway, How?


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  • Subject: RE: Re: OT :Computer to Home Highway, How?
  • From: "Roger" <roger@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 16:39:17 -0000
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In the spirit of fun

IMHO it is better to keep to correct terminology when describing things
:-))

According to my dictionary...
mo.dem
n.
A device for transmitting usually digital data over telephone wires by
modulating the data into an audio signal to send it and demodulating an
audio signal into data to receive it.

I am mystified by the 'waves down coaxial cable' concept - unless we
consider a LED to be a modem because it modulates a digitial signal into
light waves....

Now can we please get on, and discuss the difference between
bits-per-second, and baud rate!

Roger

> > Tony,
> >
> > If you, like me, are plagued by Techie people who claim that a TA
is
> > different from a modem because the TA isn't
modulating/demodulating.
> > Then the following argument has been known to work:
> >
> > "YES IT IS! - just because it's not modulating an analogue
> carrier in
> > the audio band doesn't mean it's not modulating or
> > demodulating! How do
> > _you_ think waves travel down co-axial cable!"
>
> Nice one Mark - I'll try to remember that in the future :-)
>
> Tony



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