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What is Intergrated 56k Modem?
What is this feature, will it not let me connect wireless to my router for the internet. It's a feature for hp build im doing for laptop and not sure if I need it or not plz help. heres the build so far
Onyx edit
Operating system Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 (32-bit) edit
Processor AMD Turion(TM) X2 Dual-Core Mobile Processor RM-72 (2.1GHz) edit
Display 15.4" diagonal WXGA High-Definition HP BrightView Widescreen Display (1280 x 800) edit
Memory FREE Upgrade to 3GB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm) from 2GB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm)!! edit
Graphics card 256MB ATI Radeon(TM) HD 3450 Graphics edit
Hard drive 160GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection edit
Personalization Webcam Only edit
Keyboard HP Color Matching Keyboard edit
Networking Wireless-N Card edit
Modem Port Integrated 56K Modem edit
Primary DVD/CD drive SuperMulti 8X DVD+/-R/RW with Double Layer Support edit
TV & entertainment experience No TV Tuner w/remote control edit
Primary battery 6 Cell Lithium Ion Battery edit
Productivity software Microsoft(R) Works 9.0 edit
hoping it will run diablo 3 too.
8 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
56K modem is your dial-up internet connection. Unless you don't plan on using dial-up, you don't need it.
- 1 decade ago
Holy crap I am getting OLD!! Once upon a time there was no broadband and people used there phone lines to get what was known as 56 kilobyte per second connections. It uses a RJ11 connection ( the small one for a plain old telephone system) and a telephone modem. The phone networks were (and still are) the largest medium to tie the world wide web together. where ethernet uses a RJ45 connection (a bit wider) for the faster connections like Cable or DSL. I would google the reccomended specs for the game, that would be best.
- 5 years ago
1. My XP laptop has a 56k modem and built in wireless card. You can get an external wireless device to pick up signals. 2. If your laptop has more than 10 GB of HD space I would consider upgrading, and yes you can. Just need a windows xp pro or home (i prefer pro) startup disk and boot from it. 3. You can get any internet for a laptop!!! 4. Ebay!
- Anonymous1 decade ago
56k modems are pretty out-dated technology. They allow you to use dial-up modems to connect to the internet or other computers. You'll need an ethernet port to connect to your router. 56k uses a phone line. Ethernet ports use RJ45 cords to connect to the router. You can ignore the 56k modem as a computer "perk".. you'll never use it.
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- David DLv 71 decade ago
Intergrated - bulit in
56k - standard dial up speed
Modem - device for making a network over a telephone line
It won't do wireless.
Networking Wireless-N Card, on the other hand, will.
- agent-XLv 61 decade ago
That's for connecting to the internet through the phone line. You'll probably not needed now .. but in some countries it's still used..
- Anonymous1 decade ago
It's an integrated 56k modem.
