If you came of age in the 1990s, you’ll remember the unmistakable auditory handshake of an analog modem negotiating its connection via the plain old telephone system. That cacophony of screeches and ...

While 56K bit/sec modems have been on the market since 1997, the wrangling continues over who deserves credit – and royalties – for the technology. Analog Devices, which makes modem chipsets, last ...

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If you came of age in the 1990s, you’ll remember the unmistakable auditory handshake of an analog modem negotiating its connection via the plain old telephone system. That cacophony of screeches and ...

The latest episode published by tech channel The Serial Port began with an interesting question: Is it possible to stream YouTube via dial-up internet? As the headline suggests, the answer is a ...

I had a 1200 baud modem on my IBM AT clone. Used it to log into the local university unix system in the 80s. Unfortunately, their modems were only 300 baud, so that was my maximum connection speed.

A lot of folks who bought computers a couple of years ago are finding that the 2,400-baud modems that came bundled inside aren’t up to the demands of today’s communications. The major on-line services ...