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Turn your old Dial-Up modem into a USB Hider

Turn your old Dial-Up modem into a USB Hider

If you have an old broken dial-up modem just sitting around and taking up space, then why not turn it into a USB hub? In this Instructable I will show you how to do it.

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Step 1Materials and Tools needed:

1. A Phone cord with 4 wires
2. An old Dial-Up modem
3. Isolation tape
4. USB extender with female end
5. USB memory stick
6. A phone jack
7. All your basic tools eg. a screw drier
8. Tubing / Shrink tubing
9. RJ-45 cord (with 4 wires inside)
10. Time

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Oct 17, 2009. 12:52 PMgenericpoweruser says:

This is a very well done instructable but it has one pretty glaring flaw--it is not a USB hub. A USB hub is a device that you connect to a single USB port and it forks it into 2 or more ports. I propose renaming this very detailed post to something like "hide a USB flash drive in a dial-up modem" or similar.

Top notch work otherwise!