Multi-Tech Systems MT5634ZBAV - Manual (Page 43)

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What Can You Do with Your Modem?
Your Multi-Tech MultiModem is the gateway to the exciting world of
telecommunications.
You can use it to access commercial online information services such
as CompuServe, America Online, Genie, and Prodigy. These services
provide access to databases, encyclopedias, stock reports, news,
weather, and shopping. They provide electronic mail (e-mail) links to
subscribers of the same and other services. Public message areas
called forums allow subscribers to trade information and opinions on a
vast array of topics from A to Z, while vendor forums provide hardware
and software support from Multi-Tech and other manufacturers. Online
services also allow you to upload and download computer programs,
data files, and updated software such as video and printer drivers.
Your modem can also connect you to the Internet, an international com-
puter network of universities, libraries, businesses, and government
agencies. Like the commercial online services, the Internet provides e-
mail services, public message areas, and access to information and
software, much of it easily accessed through the World Wide Web.
Other uses include direct links to colleagues with modems, to banks, and
to service bureaus. You can also telecommute with your fax modem—
work at home while communicating with the office by modem or fax.
And of course, you can use your modem to exchange faxes with any
fax machine in the world, enabling you to communicate quickly with
businesses and organizations that do not have direct modem communi-
cations.
If you have the MT5634ZBAV model, you can also use your modem
with voice mail and speakerphone applications.