dial-up

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Editorial note

What's worse is that there are still plenty of places that haven't actually progressed beyond 1999 using 56k dial-up.

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Quick take

(computing) A network connection that requires a telephone number to be dialed.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of dial-up gathered in one view.

noun

(computing) A network connection that requires a telephone number to be dialed.

adjective

(computing, of a connection to a network) Requiring a telephone number to be dialed.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for dial-up.

noun

(computing) A network connection that requires a telephone number to be dialed.

adjective

(computing, of a connection to a network) Requiring a telephone number to be dialed.

Example sentences

What's worse is that there are still plenty of places that haven't actually progressed beyond 1999 using 56k dial-up.

Having to use a computer you don't own (or mobile) feels like traveling back to 1999 using 56k dial-up.

The transition from dial-up to broadband rendered them irrelevant, except as an also-ran Yahoo style portal.

The data rate to Mars isn't shabby, at about 230kbps, roughly four times the speed of a fast dial-up connection.

Kudos to AOL for managing the transition from closed network to dial-up internet service; after that they went off the rails.

That kind of thing was moderately acceptable when Average Windows User was behind a dial-up line, but those are going away, too.

If the only way you could get to Hacker News was over a dial-up connection, would you switch to dial-up or would you just go to a different site that loads a broadband speed?

Many of the EQ players were using 9600 baud dial-up and were very happy with network performance when it first came out.

Sure, the web got rounded corners, dial-up is completely gone, and the dot-com bubble burst, but computing has not changed a whole lot.

Eventually, my iPhone cell connection beat their dial-up connection and I stopped complaining.

When I am visiting my parents I have to use their 56k dial-up connection; so being able to ssh makes it possible to admin my servers.

My blog runs on Jekyll and a longish post (~4000 words) doesn't get above 32kb, I would say that is pretty small, even by dial-up standards it wouldn't take long to retrieve.

Quote examples

Thanks to digipeaters and an Internet gateway (for the "converse" server), I was able to sit in my (very rural) home and chat with folks on other continents a couple of years before dial-up was even available in my area and my station's hostname and IP address are still present in the ampr.org DNS zone twenty years later.

What you call "nutty" I call "a dial-up Internet connection" or "a congested network due to streaming content or large downloads." If Win10 only did this while the entire network is guaranteed to be idle, and if it can guarantee it is on a landline DSL or better connection whose usage isn't tracked, then it would be okay.