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? They're the sounds we lived with for decades and once represented cutting ...

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" ...

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 ...

If you remember what a modem sounds like, chances are you’re old. And that’s not the only tech sound that’s being quickly forgotten. Our friends at LaptopMag have complied a list of noises that may ...

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 ...

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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 ...