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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 ...
"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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...