A two-wire line as used in the dial-up telephone network. Contrast with leased line. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

If you’re old enough to have used a dial-up modem we’d bet you can do an imitation ... order to operate at full-duplex. Apparently land lines disabled the speaker while you were talking ...

For context, in 2019, census figures suggested just 0.2% of households used dial-up internet, a number surely even smaller today. If you’re trying to get on the internet via telephone line today ...

However, for remote machine control over the analog telephone system, dial-up adapters were hardware devices required at both ends of the line. See dial-up network and dial-up. THIS DEFINITION IS ...

It’s a far cry from the early days of the internet when the most significant issue was making sure you could free up your ...