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Ca bl e M o d em Fea t u r es
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Capable of receiving dat a at rat es of up t o 6000K
100 t imes f ast er t han 56K)
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Abilit y t o send and receive dat a over t he cable line
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Plug-and-play operat ion f or easy set up and inst allat ion
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Compliance t o DOCSIS specif icat ion (see page 12)
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ON/OFF But t on t o put t he Et hernet port in st andby mode
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Email w ait ing not if icat ion capabilit y
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Diagnost ic light pat t erns on t he modem
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Abilit y t o receive aut omat ic sof t w are updat es, if init iat ed by your cable
company.
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The f ollow ing may aff ect t he speed of your cable modem: your comput er
equipment and conf igurat ion (processor speed, amount of RAM , available disk
space); t he number of programs you are running at t he same t ime; t he capacit y
of your ISP; net w ork t raff ic levels; t he number of Et hernet or USB devices in use
on your comput er. Your cable company may or may not f ully support t he speed
capabilit es of t his modem.
Co m pu t er Req u i r em en t s
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Personal comput er w it h t he f ollow ing minimum syst em requirement s (not e
t hat t he minimum requirement s may vary by cable company):
CPU
Syst em RAM
Operat ing Syst em
Available Disk Space
Video
Floppy Drive
Et hernet
* Window s is a trademark of the M icrosoft Corporation
* * M acintosh and the M ac OS are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc.
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IBM PC COM PATIBLE
Pent ium pref erred
16M B (32M B pref erred)
Window s* 95/98/2000/NT
Linux
M inimum 45M B (90M B pref erred)
VGA or bet t er (SVGA pref erred)
3.5" High Densit y (CD-ROM pref erred)
10BaseT or 100BaseT
An Ethernet card makes it possible for your computer to pass data to
and from the internet. You must have an Ethernet card and softw are
drivers installed in your computer. You w ill also need a standard
Ethernet cable to connect the Ethernet card to your cable modem.
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(6 M egabit s per second, over
M ACINTOSH* *
Pow erPC or higher
16M B (24M B pref erred)
M ac OS* * 7.5.3 or higher
M inimum 31M B (69M B pref erred)
VGA or bet t er (SVGA built -in pref erred)
3.5" High Densit y (CD-ROM pref erred)
10BaseT or 100BaseT
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