America Online, once the pioneer of dial-up internet is shutting down its dial up service, as of September 2025. Here's why ...

Technology kept moving forward and AOL dial-up eventually faced new rivals. Its grip on the internet slowly loosened. Broadband and cable internet offered a huge leap; they were much faster. Dial-up ...

It was too expensive to include both a 56k dial-up modem and an ethernet port, and after a meeting with Bill Gates, the team decided to include only an ethernet port to make the Xbox prepared for ...

Speaking of Bluetooth, there’s a new pocket-sized Bluetooth 56k dial-up modem from ENR Technologies which at first glance seems a bit pointless, but actually looks it’d be handy for checking ...

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 ...

It's a Pentium II 500 with an ISA USR 56k modem, running Win98.<BR>A couple weeks ago the modem fried, lightening I think. He bought a PCI USR v92 modem, installed it, but can't connect to Qwest's ...

"Next quarter there will be a lot more." Dial-up modems were thought to have reached their top speed with the current V.90 transmission standard, the technology behind the 56k modem.

Nevertheless Socket is hoping to come to the rescue of those lumbered with 56k dial-up modem connections who fancy surfing the net wirelessly. It is offering a £99 cordless 56k modem connects a ...

It was too expensive to include both a 56k dial-up modem and an ethernet port, and after a meeting with Bill Gates, the team decided to include only an ethernet port to make the Xbox prepared for ...