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| Thread ID: 82183 | 2007-08-18 08:11:00 | Logical meaning of the term "Broadband modem" | Renmoo (66) | PC World Chat |
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| 582388 | 2007-08-18 08:11:00 | Dear all, I don't believe that the term "broadband modem" has a real sense of meaning here. A modem "demodulates and modulates" data so that analogue waves can be translated into digital information and vice versa. However, does a broadband "modem" actually do that? As far as I am aware of, the general picture here is that digital information are traveling between and after the "modem" set, hence no demodulating or modulating occur. Therefore, I think that the term "broadband modem" is... oxymoronic. What do you guys think? Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 582389 | 2007-08-18 08:32:00 | Right, they are not modems at all, that is just common usage. They are really "ADSL Terminal Units - Remote or ATU-R, or else ADSL transceivers. It is similar to when I was a kid, we called road rollers 'steam rollers', even though steam had not been used since the 1920s or earlier. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 582390 | 2007-08-18 08:35:00 | I think (I could be totally wrong though...) that ADSL router is what the correct term is. | Sherman (9181) | ||
| 582391 | 2007-08-18 08:44:00 | I think (I could be totally wrong though...) that ADSL router is what the correct term is. ... which is the term that I have been writing in my notes whenever the lecturer says "broadband modem". :D |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 582392 | 2007-08-18 08:46:00 | I gave up correcting that one years ago, after all the non techies out number the techies and they don't care and never will. If you keep correcting people they just think you are an arse. | gcarmich (10068) | ||
| 582393 | 2007-08-18 09:36:00 | I think (I could be totally wrong though...) that ADSL router is what the correct term is. No, an ADSL "modem" is not a router, though it may have a router incorporated. A router does just what the name says it does it routes data. .....and I suppose whilst we are at it, in English English as distinct from American ''English'' (take note Surfer Joe...) it is pronounced rooter, not rowter :) "Rooter" as in the French La Route, as every schoolboy should know. In English English a "rowter" as Cicero knows only too well is a high speed cutting tool used for cutting wood or aluminium alloy. Note aluminium, not aluminum...... :) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 582394 | 2007-08-18 09:52:00 | An asymmetric digital subscriber line transceiver, also known as an ADSL modem or DSL modem, is a device used to connect a single computer to a DSL phone line, in order to use an ADSL service. Some ADSL modems also manage the connection and sharing of the ADSL service with a group of machines: in this case, the unit is termed a DSL router or residential gateway. A DSL modem acts as the ADSL Terminal Unit or ATU-R, as the telephone companies call it. The acronym NTBBA (network termination broad band adapter, network termination broad band access) is also common in various countries. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 582395 | 2007-08-18 10:05:00 | No, an ADSL "modem" is not a router, though it may have a router incorporated. A router does just what the name says it does it routes data. .....and I suppose whilst we are at it, in English English as distinct from American ''English'' (take note Surfer Joe...) it is pronounced rooter, not rowter :) "Rooter" as in the French La Route, as every schoolboy should know. In English English a "rowter" as Cicero knows only too well is a high speed cutting tool used for cutting wood or aluminium alloy. Note aluminium, not aluminum...... :) I stand corrected! (Look Ma, I learned something today. Truly, I did!) |
Sherman (9181) | ||
| 582396 | 2007-08-18 10:57:00 | I thought the transmorgrifier connected to the rebigulator . . . . :lol: I love these threads:p |
rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 582397 | 2007-08-18 11:22:00 | Note aluminium, not aluminum...... :)Whats the difference? | Myth (110) | ||
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