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 ...

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Older generations remember the sound of dial-up internet from the 90s and early 2000s, but what was once the soundtrack to an era is coming to an end. On Sept. 30, AOL would discontinue its dial-up ...

QUESTION: All sound works fine for games, alerts etc. The moment my modem starts to dial, all game, Web page music and alert sounds no longer work. Media player is unaffected. When attempting to ...

Dial-up modems had a distinctive sound when connecting, with the glittering, screeching song becoming a familiar melody to those jumping online in the early days of the Internet. Modern digital ...

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Ok so im not to good with cable line/type and all that stuff. I am looking to get a new modem I know how to do that my problem is I will need some more cable line and an a adapter, but I do not know ...

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Other readers have confirmed the above tip. However, the "fix" did not work for Chris Murphy: "I can still go to the Sound control panel, check the Mute checkbox, and have the speaker hiss turn off, ...

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