Your internet connection depends on multiple devices working together. Here are the details to help you troubleshoot problems and stay online.

After more than three decades, AOL is officially retiring its dial-up internet service. The change will take effect Sept. 30, bringing an end to one of the earliest ways many households went online, ...

Last month, a company webpage titled "Dial-up Internet to be discontinued" stated that the service would be discontinued.

It’s the end of an era. AOL announced this week that it has discontinued its dial-up internet service. For younger Gen-Xers and elder millennials, in particular, the beep-boops, whirrs, and crackly ...

How do birds communicate? By singing. And now it’s the turn of the machines. A new crop of businesses are now creating what’s referred to as the Internet of Sound. Let’s rewind. The history of ...

Dial-up modems had a distinctive sound when connecting, with the glittering, screeching song becoming a familiar melody to ...

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 ...

When you sign a contract with an internet provider, they'll typically send you a modem and a router in the mail. But which is which? And how are they different? A modem and a router work in tandem ...

You can use the internet in Antarctica. You can tweet from the International Space Station. And wireless internet blankets much of the globe. But go underwater and it's pretty hard to find TCP/IP.

Like a lot of Arsians, I hook up to the internet with broadband, and relegate my Mac's modem for the occasional faxing job. Since I don't fax too much, I'm content to use Jaguar's built-in bare-bones ...

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 ...