Dial-up Networking is used to establish a connection to a remote dial-up service with an analog modem. This was commonly used before the days of cable and DSL services. To set up a new connection ...

because dial-up tech is firmly stuck in the 1990s as far as speeds are concerned. At best, you’ll get something approaching 56 Kbits/sec if you’ve got a nice V.92 modem and a great connection.

If you can still hear the screeching chaos of an AOL dial-up connection—or remember the heartbreak of someone picking up the phone mid-download—you’re in the right place. The 90s were a ...

If you’re old enough to have used a dial-up modem we’d bet you can do an imitation of the sounds it made while connecting. Those not-so-beautiful sounds heralded the dawning of a ...

Hardware or software that dials a telephone number. A dial-up adapter in earlier computers commanded the modem to dial an ISP's telephone number for Internet access. However, for remote machine ...