If you were born after wifi, the dial-up modem noise is what electronics used to sound like: dated, from the era of the fax machine and the non-customizable ringtone. To me, it’s more than that. The ...

Just did a complete restore on my 1996 PB D-135.I have a yellow check on the communication port in device manager! The com 1 port is ok, the LPT port is ok, and there is no com 2 port. this is a ISA ...

The distinctive sounds of dial-up internet have been preserved in a new audio compilation that takes listeners through the evolution of modem technology. From sluggish 300 bps connections to the ...

I'm writing a VoIP package for "fun" and I have an itch to bridge the channel into my home phone line. The idea being, I stream voice to my computer and have the computer bridge the stream onto my ...

This is the sound of the dial-up modem: 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 ...

Alexis Madrigal at The Atlantic remembers the sound of a dial-up modem so fondly that he has scoured the internet to find out exactly what all those grating tones meant. Alexis Madrigal at The ...

SigmaTel, Inc.has introduced a new family of High-Fidelity High-Definition (HD) Audio codecs allowing for digital microphone capabilities and the ability to implement audio and modem functionality ...

Most modern smartphones actually run two different operating systems – there’s the one you interact with directly and there’s the firmware running on the modem system-on-a-chip, which is basically ...