When was the last time you heard that distinctive clunk of a pay phone hanging up? Or the screech of a modem coming to life? When was the last time you heard that distinctive clunk of a pay phone ...

The lowly analog modem once provided the de facto soundtrack of the Internet: a soothing dial-tone hum followed by a crescendo of beeping, screeching and scratching before a friendly "You've got mail" ...

Long before the vwip! of iMessage and the funky beats of the Skype startup song, digital communication had a strange soundtrack. Dial-up modems, which connected to servers and other computers via ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. That iconic sing-song modem handshake tone will soon be heard no more after Telstra announced plans to switch off its dial-up service.

Before ADSL was introduced around 2000, internet connections were overwhelmingly ``dial-up connections,'' where you dialed your home modem to an access point provided by your provider and connected ...

Of all the noises that my children will not understand, the one that is nearest to my heart is not from a song or a television show or a jingle. It's the sound of a modem connecting with another modem ...

2. Listen In. Next see if the modem can communicate with the phone network by listening to the modem through its built-in speaker. Set the speaker volume at Control Panel, Modems, then highlight your ...

Though your old dial-up modem (hopefully) now sits in a junk yard somewhere, its beeps and whistles surely remain etched into your brain. With this massive image, Oona Räisänen decided to explain ...

A new modem standard, V.92, will boost upload speeds and better handle phone-call interruptions for users of dial-up Internet services. In an age when broadband Internet services offer speedy and ...

QUESTION: On my Windows 98 computer, I get an "error 680, there is no dial tone," when I try to use my modem. There is no handshake sound, but there was previously ...

Q I switched my Dell PC from Windows Vista to Windows XP in order to go from a dial-up Internet connection to a faster broadband connection from AT&T. Now I want to go back to dial-up access to save ...