1.   At Home uses cable television lines to connect subscribers to the Internet at speeds hundreds of times faster than conventional modems and phone lines.

2.   Cable modems that can send data hundreds of times faster than conventional modems are one way the industry can fight back, panelists said.

3.   Conventional home modems cannot download information quickly enough to make the process convenient.

4.   Data transmission may be slower than it is with a conventional modem or network connection to the Internet.

5.   Designed for Internet use, the iMac has an ethernet connection for high-speed data transmission that far surpasses the capacity of conventional modems and telephone lines.

6.   He had experience piggybacking voice over the Internet with a conventional modem.

7.   Is there some way that I can access those services via DSL, or am I stuck with adding a conventional modem to my PC?

8.   Meanwhile, their cable-TV rivals are weighing in with cable modems that use cable lines to carry data several times faster than conventional modems.

9.   One would be for users with conventional modems in their laptop computers.

10.   One problem is that with conventional modems, video comes out grainy and jerky and is usually displayed in a tiny box on the screen.