The distinctive sounds of dial-up internet have been preserved in a new audio compilation that takes listeners through the evolution of modem technology. From sluggish 300 bps connections to the ...

If you were born after wifi, the dial-up modem noise is what electronics used to sound like: dated, from the era of the fax machine and the non-customizable ringtone. To me, it’s more than that. The ...

Long before the vwip! of iMessage and the funky beats of the Skype startup song, digital communication had a strange soundtrack. Dial-up modems, which connected to servers and other computers via ...

Dial-up modems used to be the default way of accessing the Internet, but times have moved on. They’re now largely esoteric relics from a time gone by. With regular old phone lines rather hard to come ...

The sound of a1990s dial-up modem is music to some composers' ears. Do you remember the sound of a dial-up modem? Kind of R2D2 and Darth Vader all rolled up into one gurgly, bloop-bleep bridge of ...

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, ...

Sprint has created the ultimate cellular data modem combo with its Sierra Wireless Compass 597. The device folds high-speed, ubiquitous data access and GPS (Global Positioning System) service into a ...

I have a customer who brought there computer in because of internet problems.<BR><BR>It is a fariley old Compaq computer running Windows ME (thats probably the main problem) and are using a dial-up ...

This Wireless Modem Set is neat. Plug the base station into a phone socket and the receiver into a spare USB port and the unit uses Bluetooth to bridge the modem connection. It’ll be slow, of course, ...