I wish I could get faster, cheap modem access to the Internet from home. It’s not that I didn’t try. I got one of those fancy-schmantzy new 56-kbps (kilobytes per second) modems–the ones that promise ...

If you have cable internet, you probably rent your modem from your internet service provider for a monthly fee on top of your internet plan. It's usually somewhere between $5 and $10 a month, though ...