You can do all this even if your Internet connection is a creaky-slow dial-up modem.
Decades ago, ADP enabled clients to administer their payroll off-site by connecting to processing centers via a dial-up modem.
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Shannan White met her ex-husband on a computer bulletin board in the 1990s when she still used a dial-up modem.
However, municipal clerks send their election night results by dial-up modem to the county clerk, where they are tabulated and stored.
It's worth noting, though, that all of these PCs had broadband Internet connections--a dial-up modem would likely provide a far less mellifluous conversation.
As a bonus, SpeedNet's customers will be able to plug into the Internet at warp speed, using connections that are more than 100 times faster than a dial-up modem.
Narrowband (dial-up modem) users can access audio content only.
Earlier this year it launched a network adapter for its PlayStation 2 gaming system that lets customers play against each other over the Internet using either a dial-up modem or a broadband connection.
Yamaha PSR3000Yamaha's latest "home keyboard" models (if you were going to diss on them you'd definitely be calling them organs rather than synthesizers) come with the ability to hook up to a DSL modem and download new songs to pick out on said keyboard, karaoke tunes with lyrics to sing along to, or just muzak.
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This one promises download speeds of up to 42Mbps and upload speeds approaching 5.76Mbps, with a swiveling design that allows the body of the modem to be tucked up against the side of the notebook and protects it from being damaged by accidental bumps.
He came to her house, and armed with a modem, he set up an e-mail account and hooked her up to the university's computer system.
Jim Pickrell got into the Internet service provider business in 1995, back when dial-up connections ruled the day and a 56k modem was considered fast.
To upload the data to a computer, a patient holds a small wand over his chest that picks up the data and transmits it through a modem to a Medtronic computer bank. (Future versions will be totally automatic and transmit wirelessly.) For now doctors mostly use the device to perform routine checkups remotely or to evaluate the device after it fires up.
In a smaller loop of, say, 4, 000 feet, data can hum along at up to 6 megabits per second, nearing cable modem speeds.
Applied Micro Technology uses the vertical blanking interval to allow Internet data to piggyback on a television broadcast at up to five times the speed of a standard modem and telephone line.
It sheds the newer Cortex-A15 architecture of the Tegra 4 for a spruced-up 2.3GHz Cortex-A9 with the i500 LTE modem built directly into the chip die -- a move that cuts the surface area in half and simplifies the hardware, even as it supposedly outruns equivalent competition.
These microcells are small devices, about the size of a DSL or cable modem, that create a local cellular service zone up to about 40 feet from the device in which you can make and place cell phone calls and, if you have a smartphone, use data services to access the Internet.
We can have dial up, or we can get DSL, or we can get cable modem, whatever.
The computers had a modem, a good, chunky keyboard and the ability to write up to 11 pages of text.
Whether it's phone wire used for dial-up and digital subscriber lines (DSL), or the coaxial cables that carry cable modem connections, these connections are a bottleneck between the carrier's big pipes and your bandwidth-starved computer.
Additionally, U.S. Cellular offers 4G LTE capable data devices including the Huawei UML397 4G LTE USB Wireless Modem and the Samsung SCH-LC11 Mobile Hotspot, allowing customers to experience data speeds up to 10 times faster.
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The FreedomPop Hub Burst modem and router boasts wireless antennas to boost speeds as well as Ethernet jacks to connect up to 10 Internet enabled devices, including desktops, TV's and streaming music and video players.
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Setting up a wireless network in the home requires at least two components: a wireless hub, which connects to the modem (DSL or cable) or server PC, and a client device such as a PC insert card, which connects to the hub.
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