While a phone line used to be required for internet, that's not necessarily the case anymore. Dial-up and DSL are the only internet types that require a direct phone line to the home.

Dial-up is likely never going to totally die, unless the landline phone system itself gets knocked offline, which AT&T has ...

Remember dial-up internet? One of its biggest providers says it's time to retire the service – one of the first ways people could get online – after more than three decades. American online service ...

Small businesses in metropolitan areas often operate off a broadband connection, but companies in rural locations might not have access to cable or DSL. High-speed Internet, as the name indicates, ...

Anyone who used the internet in the 1980s or 1990s vividly remembers the signature dial-up sound that meant a computer was connecting to the internet. That’s because in the early days of the web, ...

For anyone who experienced it, the screeching hiss of a modem handshaking over copper phone wires is unforgettable. The technology may have tied up the family phone line, but modems were the gateways ...

Most fax machines include a connection that lets you connect your phone, fax and computer to one phone line. You use this capability when you use dial-up service for an Internet connection, and you ...

Remember the good old days when you had to plug a telephone line into your computer to access the internet? Well, those weren’t exactly good days, and thankfully technology has come a long way since ...