You may find yourself in a situation where several PCs will need to share a single external modem. This can be accomplished with a serial port “swap box,” a device that selects between multiple input lines and one output.

Each PC is plugged into a switched input line. The modem is connected to the output line. When a user needs the modem, he simply sets the selector for his PC after making sure no one else is using it.

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