*laugh* Sorry. It was just as jarring to me as a sentence like "he was such a music lover that he only released his first album on compact LP digital cassette disc."

Okay, now I'm sure that's what everyone means: that is NOT a cable modem. That is an old-school analog modem, of the sort that was attached to telephone lines and measured its speed in hundreds or thousands of baud.

That's an analog modem, Serpico. :) Every cable modem I've ever seen has been completely silent.

What is the sound of a cable modem booting up?