because dial-up tech is firmly stuck in the 1990s as far as speeds are concerned. At best, you’ll get something approaching 56 Kbits/sec if you’ve got a nice V.92 modem and a great connection.

A dial-up adapter in earlier computers commanded the modem to dial an ISP's telephone number for Internet access. However, for remote machine control over the analog telephone system, dial-up ...

It often refers to a 3G or 4G cellular modem, but it may also refer to an analog dial-up modem. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

If you’re old enough to have used a dial-up modem we’d bet you can do an imitation of the sounds it made while connecting. Those not-so-beautiful sounds heralded the dawning of a ...

Eventually, the modulator-demodulator was used to allow dial-up Internet connections to personal computers at home. Since a modem is a modulator ... travels along use analog data signals.