In an era dominated by broadband and wireless cellular networks, it might come as a surprise to many that dial-up internet services still exist in the United States. This persistence is not a mere ...

There will be plenty of waves for analog modems to surf, thanks to a new dial-up modem standard and U.S. Robotics' plans to bring one of the first boards to the beach. U.S. Robotics announced ...

I've seen that Electronics Boutique is taking preorders for the PS2 network adapter, and it's supposedly shipping on August 27th. It has both an ethernet interface and a 56K modem integrated into it, ...

My brother has a several years old Gateway tower that he uses for a dialup connection to his ISP, Qwest.net. It's a Pentium II 500 with an ISA USR 56k modem, running Win98.<BR>A couple weeks ago the ...

It’s the end of an era. AOL announced this week that it has discontinued its dial-up internet service. For younger Gen-Xers and elder millennials, in particular, the beep-boops, whirrs, and crackly ...

If your vision of the Big Apple still includes bright yellow taxi cabs, flashing lights, and a phone booth on every corner, it's time to recalibrate. The city just moved its last freestanding payphone ...

In the days of yore, computers would scream strange sounds as they spoke with each other over phone lines. Of course, this is dial up, the predecessor to modern internet technology, offering laughable ...

Apple's MacBook Pro laptop computers no longer have built-in telephone modems for accessing the Internet over a dial-up connection. In certain circumstances, though, dial-up Internet access is the ...

In reply to our item last week, where we noted that we could not connect via our dial-up modem after our cable modem went down: Several readers (including William Kucharski, Bud Jenschke, and C. L.

Though considered a dying breed by most, dial-up connections are still used by many users staying in hotels without high-speed access, or in geographical regions to which broadband connectivity does ...

AOL has announced it is to discontinue its dial-up internet service and associated software next month, marking the end of a product that has been part of consumer internet access for more than three ...