Then, 56k dial-up modems were associated with crushingly slow speeds, long startup times, frequent crashes, and the painful sound of digital gears grinding through telephone lines.

Hrmm, well what was the protocal version of the ISA USR 56k modem?<br><br>If you're saying that if the new modem works at your server and not Qwest, then its maybe Qwests fault :/ He should tell ...

Dial-up offered a theoretical peak speed of 56,000 bytes per second, and users had to call an internet service provider through the 56K modem fitted inside their PC. In a nutshell, it was far too slow ...

AOL is set to shut down the dial-up internet service that once was the symbol of internet connectivity after over 40 years. A ...

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My coworker is putting together a win2k machine to dial into our kvm to ip unit here in the office from home. I gave him an old Tyan Tomahawk A+ motherboard I wasn't using, and everything seems to ...

Speeds crept up over the years, eventually reaching 33.6 kbps—thought to be the practical limit for audio modems running over the telephone network. Yet, hindsight tells us that 56k modems ...

Internet pioneer AOL is shuttering its dial-up service at the end of September after 30 years of providing its landline-based ...

AOL rolled out its dial-up service in 1989, when lawmakers were focused on closing the "digital divide," the idea that people living in poorer or more rural areas would not have equitable access to ...

America Online, the internet pioneer of the early 1990s, changed its name to AOL in 2006. In 2017, it shut down the popular ...

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 ...