### equipment | modem:

Cable modem
* Most cable modems are external devices that connect to a personal computer.
* allow computers to talk over the cable television network.
* are a means of high speed Internet access via cable lines
  - shared media
  - small but fast-growing segment of the online world
* are a way of using the cable network to access the Internet
  - to access the Internet using lines installed by the local cable company
  - an increasingly popular means for PC's to attach at high speeds, to the Internet
* are devices that attach to the cable TV network connection in a home or office
  - cable TV network connection in a residence
* are the cable companies' solution to high speed internet connectivity
  - television companies' answer to high speed data access
* is one of many competing data communications interfaces to faster internet access.
* keep computers running without a phone line.
* represent the kind of monopoly that Internet providers fear in telephony.
* service that goes through a cable TV connection.
* work over coaxial cable television wiring provided by cable television companies.
+ Modem: Computer hardware :: Telecommunications
  * Many modems are used to connect to the Internet through telephone service or cable television service. Faster telephone service is called DSL and is usually more than ten times faster. Cable modems connect through cable television, and are similarly fast. Most DSL and cable modems are internal.

Fax modem
* Most fax modems have two jacks, one for the cord that goes to the wall and one for a telephone.
* use a computer's internal processor.

### equipment:

Mound
* Some mounds contain no eggs and are referred to as test redds, false redds, or scrapes.
* Some mounds use heat
  - metabolic heat
* are also important in feedlots
  - fill
  - good places to use fumigants, since they are believed to mark deep runs or nest areas
* are located in countrysides
  - deserts
  - hell
  - structures
* are used for baseball
  - pitch
* built by fire ants in fields often interfere with mowing and farming operations.
* can stand alone or be in clusters of as many as twenty constructions
  - vary in size, but the volcano shape is characteristic of a mole
* differ in shape and number.
* includes sections.
* interfere with mechanical cultivation, and discourage farm workers from entering fields.
* is baseball equipment
* occur when the minerals concentrate at the ground surface through evaporation.
* serve as protection against the extreme heat and flooding that occurs at ground level.
* stand alone and in clusters.
* vary from about the size of a golf ball to a basketball
  - in shape, between and even within species
* vary in size, anywhere from that of a basketball to that of a golf ball
  - from golf ball to basketball size

### equipment | mound:

Termite mound
* Some termite mounds use heat
* are marvels of engineering.
* can increase the robustness of dryland ecosystems to climatic change.
* vary a lot due to various species of termites
  - in shape and size depending on the soil types and local climatic conditions

Parachute
* Some parachutes can take at least two days to pack.
* are attractive almost magnetic objects for children
  - illegal because they are very dangerous
  - large pieces of cloth
  - the lifesaving equipment of aircrewman when they have to bail out
* includes hems
  - sections
* is rescue equipment

### equipment | parachute:

Powered parachute
* Powered Parachutes are the fastest growing segment of the light aviation industry
  - safest type of wing available
  - very large with slow steering response times and large inertial movements
* are the easiest powered aircraft to pilot
  - fastest growing segment of light aviation

### equipment | paraphernalia:

Fishing gear
* Some fishing gear is particularly deadly for certain animals in some situations.
* is gear.