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Title: Naming things and brands
Post by: OvermindDL1 on July 07, 2008, 11:23:23 AM

Quote from: GENERAL MANSON* on July 07, 2008, 04:03:42 AM
Check your modem ports. That was my situation not the router.

You still use a modem?!? :P

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Title: Naming things and brands
Post by: Nielk1 on July 07, 2008, 07:59:03 PM

Um, technically I use a modem, its a cable modem.

Title: Naming things and brands
Post by: GENERAL MANSON* on July 07, 2008, 10:15:59 PM

Quote from: OvermindDL1 on July 07, 2008, 11:23:23 AM
You still use a modem?!? :P
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DSL modem that is .

Title: Naming things and brands
Post by: OvermindDL1 on July 07, 2008, 10:56:05 PM

Wrong for both of you. :P

MoDem stands for Modulator/Demodulator, aka, a device that translates between basic electrical DC signals and a wave (sound). DSL Gateways and Cable Gateways are neither. And yes, their proper terms are Gateway.

I really do not like it when people get modems and gateways mixed up, makes it really hard to diagnose a persons internet connection when I ask what type they have and they say "modem", when I later find out it was actually not then it would have saved me on going down a whole path of diagnostics.

Title: Naming things and brands
Post by: CmptrWz on July 07, 2008, 11:02:37 PM

Get the cable/dsl companies to re-label the devices and boxes, then. Most (not all) that I have seen read "modem" and as a result the people who get them say "modem" when you ask what it is.

Title: Naming things and brands
Post by: GENERAL MANSON* on July 08, 2008, 12:06:04 AM

Quote from: OvermindDL1 on July 07, 2008, 10:56:05 PM
Wrong for both of you. :P

MoDem stands for Modulator/Demodulator, aka, a device that translates between basic electrical DC signals and a wave (sound). DSL Gateways and Cable Gateways are neither. And yes, their proper terms are Gateway.

I really do not like it when people get modems and gateways mixed up, makes it really hard to diagnose a persons internet connection when I ask what type they have and they say "modem", when I later find out it was actually not then it would have saved me on going down a whole path of diagnostics.
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Well id rather use laymans terms since most people dont know what im talking about i just keep it simple.

What are those little devices that the tech isp dudes use to run diagnostics on the modem? Sometimes i do know they use a labtop.

Title: Naming things and brands
Post by: bigbadbogie on July 08, 2008, 12:13:32 AM

Hmm.. never heard of a 'labtop'.

Title: Naming things and brands
Post by: OvermindDL1 on July 08, 2008, 02:56:06 AM

A portable lab? :P

And yes, the ISP's are moronic for doing that, just tried to help idiots transition by saying going from a modem to a 'faster' modem.. >.<
Bugs the living tar out of me...

Title: Naming things and brands
Post by: Nielk1 on July 08, 2008, 07:41:46 AM

Many specialized terms have lost their meanings and been applied more generally. Heck, a band aid is not a bandied, it is a bandage, but all band aids are now called band aids cause someone decided to use that word. Liquid band aids are called band aids but they are nothing of the sort.

Since when did acronyms stop being formatted correctly.

Look at how SCUBA used to be written and how it is just scuba now.
Darn MoDems

Title: Naming things and brands
Post by: OvermindDL1 on July 08, 2008, 09:42:35 AM

The 'Band-Aid' style bandage's I have in my cabinet say "Aid + Plus Comfortable Bandages". :P

Title: Naming things and brands
Post by: VSMIT on July 08, 2008, 03:40:40 PM

Band-Aid is a brand name, like Kleenex, but people use those names for the generics, too. They become so wide spread that it becomes normal to just call them by that.

VSMIT.

Title: Naming things and brands
Post by: OvermindDL1 on July 09, 2008, 02:04:04 AM

I've always heard of them referred to as bandages, only as Band-Aid's on tv, just figured that was marketing...

Also, split topic, can't find the offtopic board to move it to though...

Title: Re: Naming things and brands
Post by: Nielk1 on July 09, 2008, 03:55:09 AM

Its gone, we should stop, since CmptWz might get a bit angry at us doing an OT with no OT section.

Title: Re: Naming things and brands
Post by: OvermindDL1 on July 09, 2008, 04:09:47 AM

Bah, this still came from an on-topic thread though. :P

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