Dial-up Modem (撥接數據機)

[weeardguy]

Ahhh... and the excitement when the noise stopped: did it connect? Or did it not... And mostly, when it did emit noise for the third time, you could be pretty sure it couldn't connect... Sad I never recorded establishing a connection with a dial-up modem for my kids later... you just took it for granted, and you thougt it would never dissapear...

[AeroplaneJamie]

i want one

[100Modem]

Ahh i remember this... 5 minutes to dial up, couldn't use the phone if i was using the modem, and of course, amazing net speed! To load a simple flash game it would take at least 2 minutes.

Good days.

[alcid34]

@100Modem i agree

[aasse]

@ 0:28 it does get the V90 protocol and makes 2 bips. :)

donnn donnn! It was the kick ass! very nice.

Those works great till today with much better phone lines.

[gwreijman]

The good old days of a old 56k modem to access the internet.

[EduCamargo]

despite all the increasing advance towards broad band connection infrastructure, this will stand forever and always as the classic sound of the internet.

[ipeters61]

At 0:27 to 0:31, why was that sound made?

[nalilord]

@ipeters61 it's the sound of lowering the connection speed. probably to 28 or 33.6 due to low line quality.

[jaznpwnz]

good times

[LegacyMicro]

I remember the jump from 300 to 1200 baud. Transfer 100k in about 10 minutes. Now THAT'S fast....

[stevek1993]

this is my start up sound in 7 lol

[GHWTVideos]

I remember as a kid using Windows 95 WITH Internet Explorer and a 56K Dial up speed. those were the days.

[peyfish8095]

*downloading an important document*

mom: I need to call my friend ..

*mom takes phone*

me: MOM! YOU JUST CANCELED MY DOWNLOAD!

[SuperToyotaLexus]

I remember the old times, in 2010, when my friend had to wait until her mother was not on the phone (a rarity) so he can play just a so tiny game. Eh.

[UserException]

I'd hate trying to watch this video on dial-up.

[adslqooqoo]

I used it when I junior high

the sound still in my mind

[ChK1986PL]

This sound is better than sex.

[Postbus22]

play Battlefield on it xD

[Tiscando]

Is it connected with an old 25-pin full-RS232 serial cable, or to a parallel port? Does the cable convert to a 9-pin on the computer end? I remember the days of dial-up with this sound, before I finally got wireless broadband working on my upstairs computer.

[airconguy1]

Thats the BEST SOUND EVER!!!! hahaha, you know its just some old ladies making that soiund...

[emeraldrafael]

Hunh... you know, its going to be sad when people who had to get used to thtat are dead and no one knows what that sound is. Cause its just going ot be a huge mystery when someone finds an audio clip of it and no one can say what it is.

[jfsoccervids]

Best sound in the world.

[hkfan1980]

funny thing was the first time i heard diarl up was in doom 3 XD central command or someplace like that you can hear dial up sounds around the computers XD

[lordtalon69]

Oh lord that sound makes me orgasm.

Also ATM0 if it doesn't make you orgasm.

[unadulterateddagger]

Oh man, and the double bong meant you actually connected at the full 56k.

[jebug29]

dial up was faster than a DSi!

[pjorgenson1979]

meh, we only had the 24.4 k...

[yeungnethk]

good

[FraueleinAspirine]

I used to have one of 28.8 of DA SAME! DAAAYUM! Good old times

[Pikmeir]

I wish they put this sound when my Xbox connected to Xbox live

[mastergx1]

this noise - its gone but defo not forgotten

[kakureru]

i had to use one of those (exact ones) all last year... 4K byte per second MAX

[cd949604]

why does dial up sound like that?

[jaryH3]

@cd949604 Because contrary to DSL or other stuff you can hear it.

[cd949604]

@jaryH3 oh

[jaryH3]

@cd949604 More explanatory answer: Old fixed phone lines are build to transfer bandwidth (frequencies) of human voice. This bandwidth can be exploited also for transmission of data, but modulation must be used to transform the data into the form which is more suitable for the phone lines.

What you hear is the dialing and handshake procedure. When handshaking, several subprocedures are performed. The devices on both ends of lines tries to do their best to get the maximum transmission speed.

[jaryH3]

@cd949604 When the handshake is over, the data transmissions sounds like a noise, but it is silenced because it is not interesting.

I don't know much about the DSL. I'm pretty sure that DSL also makes some handshake, but because other than the voice bandwidth is used, the DSL modems are not build to "play" it. Maybe the old phone modems does that because it provides some way to analyze the malfunctions.

Hope it is clear now.

[fleetwoodsucks]

holy fuck a parallel port. How did you manage to connect it to your rig?

[footinmouthindustrys]

I have that same modem!

[OfDaHeeZy84]

OMG it brings back memories... I thought back in the days 56k modem was the shit and now dial-up modems sucks and thank god for broadband internet ROFL

[al3zmi]

Man this shit brings back memories hahaha

i always hated that sound :P

[BIZARR099]

LOOOL good times XD

[DarkSavageX]

From 56kbps to 1.5mbps im glad i upgraded LOL.

[Avataryoutuification]

@DarkSavageX I'm 20mbps max from provider, but line only does 7mb max. My download speed is 6.78 mbps and upload something like 4.56 mbps...

Pretty quick..On downloads I tent to averge on 3mb/s and on some good downloads with a good sever or many seeders i get up to 6.56 mbps.

[Martinofredwall100]

I miss those days!

[waddlerobloxxxx]

im still using one of these(on old win98 laptop not my aspire)

friggin awesomE SouNd

[rysnyper50002]

This is the reason WHY i go to my aunts house, to surf the web how it was back then.

[Szymek019]

why does it have speakers!?

[JanyPL]

@Szymek019

Because it uses sound to transfer data ziom :p

[terminator363]

I should have this as a ringtone....

[hundehausen]

i love it

[MrDosshell]

Holy shit! I used to have the same modem in 1995! I used to love this sound! I miss it so much!

[jason4275]

remember back when you could turn the sound off

[pmgodfrey]

- @jason4275 -

ATM0

[odv000]

@pmgodfrey

atm2 mutch better !

[DanielL7777]

XA-XA-XA-XA Zachot))

[TheDerekMoore]

I had one of these. Man those were good times.

[topractise]

超懷念

[kellyberry]

hurray for my comcast account

[LulzGun]

Almost expecting that

welcome..... You've got mail

voice

[Autumnhammy]

cool my dad has dial up

[xantiherox]

aww i love this sound!

takes me back :D

[Haufey]

Delicious

[AndreMitStrich]

Classical. :D

[PluMGMK]

I have a modem that keeps hissing after finishing the connection, when used with Windows.

[jimmy101112000]

I had a 56k modem do the same thing. Just put a piece of tape over the speaker hole on the modem. That would be the easy fix.

[PluMGMK]

I tried cotton wool once - didn't make much difference. Anyway I don't use it anymore so it doesn't really matter.

[ajwgeek]

dont ya think youtube would be a little slow with dial-up?

[PluMGMK]

Like I said, I don't use it anymore.

[mrljthedj]

my favorite memory of dail up is once when it was connecting and there was a thunder storm........... it was half way through connecting then BANG! it exploded lol

[almas99]

i miss dial-up's sound

[easytolearnmagicstuf]

they should put tyhe sound on all modems just for fun so they sound like dial-up =P

[footinmouthindustrys]

@easytolearnmagicstuf it just wouldn't be the same to me

[10987654321akqj]

Read Computer journals of 80s

[iCamiloTV]

the sound of the Computer Chronicles show! mid to early 2000s.

[dasergioo]

i should have taken more pictures, man i miss that thing xD

[MacWii]

Man, i would buy yours right now...

Anyway, i would like to know why it makes that sound

[pmgodfrey]

- @ MacWii -

If your modem can't communicate at a high speed it waits to hear the tone it's looking for. If you called up a modem on the phone and listened, you'd hear it go through several different frequencies. It is attempting to communicate at it's highest speed first, then drops back to lower speeds if nothing responds.

Modem is an acronym. It stands for (MO)modulator(DEM)demodulator. It modulates digital signals into analog tones and then the other end demodulates it back to digital.

[pmgodfrey]

- @ MacWii -

It goes something like this.

Modem dials. Other end picks up and initiates a carrier signal. This is the first sound you hear.

Your modem is listening to the sounds and says, hey, I can communicate at that speed! If both modems agree it's called a handshake. The other processes I'm a little fuzzy on because it's been a long, long time - but there are stop bits and parity that also needs to be negotiated. N,8,1 was fairly standard in the US.

[WinVistaUser2]

I heard the sound at work... yay dial-up... NOT! xD

[flamerail]

your pc sounds like a jet engine lol

[footinmouthindustrys]

what is your isp? I have not heard the sonar like sound before on dial up

[starbond6]

I remember that on my dial-up. It never used to be like that. I used dial from 1996-2001 and i dont remember the pinging part until 2000, except was just one ping.

[dartagnanv]

Good memories...

[MichaelFdeGodoy]

Holly crap! Is that a dial-up modem!? O_o I never saw one of those like the one in the video. XD I hate that noise they make, but it is kinda nostalgic. XP

[ArThuRoCK100]

The is sond mush good.kkkkk

[Hiugoduo]

I have 500 kb./sec.!!!...in my dreams..

[siriusgamer]

man i remember when 56k was THE shit! now its just plain shit

[footinmouthindustrys]

@siriusgamer I use 28.8K sometimes, but I have never in my life used 56K

[siriusgamer]

@footinmouthindustrys So what are you using now?

[footinmouthindustrys]

@siriusgamer I have 10Mb/s cable internet, but I use dial up just for fun, or when testing old computers

[Stup1dG33kz]

Weird. I had the same 56k modem.

[RvBno1fan]

did it work well? for dail up i mean

[Stup1dG33kz]

Oh, yeah. It was fine. Froze sometimes, though. Ahhhh, the memories.

[footinmouthindustrys]

i have a dreamcast, dial up sucks for online gaming, in quake 3 arena ther is a 1 second delay with bullets and sometimes other ppl try to use the phone

[tbarocsi]

When I went to my friend Alex's house when I was 9, he had dial-up, and whenever I do whatever I do to hear the noise alone, I keep thinking I'm going to get murdered ._.

[youcantubeittoo]

In Half Life 2, when the MetroPolice die, they sound like dial-up. Also, leaving a 56k modem on in a room with no lights on is creepy. It blinks green all the time and makes that sounds like some creepy robot.

[WinVistaUser2]

Where I work, there are two Dial-Up Fax Modems on two servers, and not-free High Speed WiFi...

I need to figure out how I can login to the website nstead of paying $2.95/2hrs of internet

[theleadprogrammer]

Ahhh, the memory's that brings back.

Long live unlimited broadband..........

[cobyvfd13]

I love this sound. Brings back memories!

[footinmouthindustrys]

lol, imagine downloading porn using dial up LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!

[cobyvfd13]

lol!!!

[sonicrushfan1]

When it's done downloading you can even use porn anymore XDXDXDXD

[sz42781]

I used to on this modem except it was a 28.800 bps, forget about video it was all about pics lmao

[footinmouthindustrys]

28.8k modems were shit! I have two 56k pci modems that i got completely free from my school's computer tech lab and images download in less than 30 seconds, what was the load time for images on 28.8k dial up?

[WinVistaUser2]

2 minutes (depending on file size, resolution of the picture, etc.)

[angryshoebox]

I had that same modem too. I don't miss it at all ;-). Never got anywhere *near* 56kbps, more like 31-33 kbps(old phone wiring, etc.)

[undergroundman1993]

Computers had to make sound back then... without it you wouldn't know it was doing anything :-]

[Newkiller]

Love dial-up line sound...

I really miss that times... *nostalgia* :'-(

[nakawoopahkapooski]

these modems scared the crap out of me in the 90's... and they still do

[tangofizz77]

Har my dad used to have SuperNet and the computer did that stupid sound. Until we got BT internet broadband.

[jtmjtm2001]

I love this BOING BOING!

[asams96]

sounds like r2-d2 in a blender

[rt987]

LOL!!!!!

[bliss22]

Wow, I had this very same modem and LOVED it. Best 56k modem.

[Games5522]

I remember that sound. Of course, we switched to broadband in 2006 and never looked back. But I miss the sound. Sometimes we'd get a phone call while I was connecting and someone would pick it up and you could hear their voices. It was cool.

[fairyheli2]

i remember dial-up, back in 2004 this is what i had to put up with, and no youtube and this crap called 'aol video'

[fgsfds8]

卓越

[DJSeba]

I pity the kids whose first connection was DSL and they never got to witness this beautiful creation.

[realone211]

not my case..........i had this crap ...

[Hakidia]

Lawl this was horrifying its like my sister singing in the shower I hated dial up.. pron was never so slow 3:

[picaticatara]

It is sucky now but people back then thought it was amazing... until the digital camera:(

[talldude123]

i had that same modem a long time ago. I remember my parents having to type in some password to get on the dial-up. I think back then it was $50/month for 200 minutes of internet

[jakeharvey]

That sound is like pure sweet heroin and crack cocaine to me.

[orangelixir]

Hahaha!! I laughed to loud when I read that, because I was thinking the same thing. lol

[Shiba1227]

I miss those things like I miss old video game cartridges.

Terrible compared to to stuff nowadays, but you've get so nostalgic when you see them.

[Meonlyme]

oh OH! remember when you had to blow into the cartridges? *gets nostalgic* things were so much easyer then:)

[Shiba1227]

I preferred hitting them on the ground myself.

Oh the memories...

[jedgar387]

i miss that modem sound

[00Cachipungo00]

Fuck no!! Im glad that, the hell time is over

[Clovervidia]

Got that right. Watch out dial-up! Broadband is going to kill you! lol

[ar4yyyy]

Ahh...8bit sounds...i miss you so

[Clovervidia]

Darn, I wish I could go back in time to those old days, cranky old modems, slow-poke internet lol

[gamercloud]

I remember that sound, it was so annoying.. I miss it lol

[maxforcego]

Hi~

Thank you for your response^^

It's an interesting experience for me~

[hkvvvf]

令人懷念，第28秒及30秒的兩下更是USRobotics Courier及Sportster系列Modem獨有的V.9­0制式的Handshake聲音。

[maxforcego]

感謝回應！

您的知識真是飽！是從事這方面的專家嗎？

這台USR數據機，是我珍藏許久的寶貝，

不過這已經是56k時代，的後期產品了～