"Our Dual PC Modem eliminates the need to add extra phone lines and pay for multiple Internet service provider accounts to accommodate family Internet usage.

Unlike dial-up Internet service, a DSL modem does not use your telephone line to dial out. Therefore, if your home or office requires you to dial "9" to get an outside line, no special DSL ...

The standard also shortens the time it takes to get a connection by storing information about the phone line. Each time a dial-up connection is made, the modem undergoes a training sequence to ...

Digital subscriber line technology is available to about 55 per cent of the population from firms such as Eircom, Esat BT and UTV. NTL offers cable broadband services in a few areas and wireless ...

For anyone who experienced it, the screeching hiss of a modem handshaking over copper phone wires is unforgettable. The technology may have tied up the family phone line, but modems were the ...

But, by far, dial-up Web surfers still outnumber high-speed customers, and they have a high-tech advance to cheer in the new millennium.

I have Dial up right now. I HATE IT. I want to get Cable or DSL but im on a budget. I was wandering if anyone had ISDN. If so hwo is it? What kind of Download speeds do you get?

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 ...

Officials with AOL have announced an end date to its once-popular dial-up internet service. Here's more about the technology that once connected millions of Americans to the web, via phone lines.

This is the sound of the dial-up modem: Back in the 1990s a dial-up modem was how you accessed the internet. A very early version is pictured above. You’d plug it into your desktop computer and ...