About Your Modem

Jacks

Place the modem card in front of you as you go through this chapter. This will help you identify the various components found on your modem card.

Jacks are one-hole connecting interfaces on your modem card. They allow you to attach other devices to your card. Jacks are found on the rear panel of your modem card.

The jacks on your modem card can be seen in Figure 1-1.

Rear Panel

Phone Jack

The Phone jack allows you to connect a telephone to the card. This jack may differ in certain countries.

Telephone Line Jack

The Telephone Line jack allows you to connect to a telephone line for data transmission and document faxing.

Figure 1-1: The jacks on your modem card.

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