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What (who) is dial-up - definition

METHOD OF INTERNET ACCESS USING A PHONE LINE AND THE CREATION OF SPECIFIC TONES
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dial-up         
¦ adjective (of a computer system or service) used remotely via a telephone line.
Dial-up Internet access         
Dial-up Internet access is a form of Internet access that uses the facilities of the public switched telephone network (PSTN) to establish a connection to an Internet service provider (ISP) by dialing a telephone number on a conventional telephone line. Dial-up connections use modems to decode audio signals into data to send to a router or computer, and to encode signals from the latter two devices to send to another modem.
dialup         
A temporary, as opposed to dedicated, connection between machines established over a telephone line using modems.

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Dial-up Internet access

Dial-up Internet access is a form of Internet access that uses the facilities of the public switched telephone network (PSTN) to establish a connection to an Internet service provider (ISP) by dialing a telephone number on a conventional telephone line. Dial-up connections use modems to decode audio signals into data to send to a router or computer, and to encode signals from the latter two devices to send to another modem at the ISP.

Examples of use of dial-up
1. The old dial–up internet offered a glacial 56k connection.
2. Generally, he says, it‘s slightly faster than dial–up access.
3. AOL was busy with dial–up [Internet services] for much too long.
4. AOL‘s loss of 835,000 dial–up customers pushed profits down 17 per cent to $442m.
5. Current dial–up services have speeds nearing 256 kilobytes (256,000 bits of data) per second.