Not so long ago, hopping onto the internet required more than just opening a browser. In the dial up days you’d have to wait for your modem to screech and squawk as it connected. Looking back through years of nostalgia, those sounds were strangely satisfying and often times melodic, which explains why someone has created a tiny electronic keyboard that lets you turn a dialup modem’s sounds into your own symphony.
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You know what’s missing from technology these days? Sound. We have noises but no sound. We open our laptops and we’re automatically connected to Wi-Fi. Our phones only squeak for alerts, they don’t provide a soundtrack for the future. The old dial up modem handshake though? Now that was real sound. That was like hearing technology happen. This is what that sound looks like. This is something your kids will never know.
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The only thing worse than paying out the tuchus for unreliable$4 (NOW $6
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Pervasively unreliable Time Warner Cable surprised its New York customers with a postcard in the mail declaring they’ll have to pay $4 to rent the cable modem you need for its piss poor internet service. And now TWC is being sued for the stunt. More »
Time Warner Cable just added a snazzy little rental fee to all its customers’ bills, which hasn’t made anyone (outside of maybe the Time Warner offices) very happy. A lot of other cable companies do this too. You can get around it by buying your own modem or maybe get a better plan with more bandwidth a free modem so you’ll be paying more, but not wasting money on a rental. But have you? More »
We New Yorkers who are stuck with unreliable Time Warner Cable got a postcard in the mail yesterday informing us that we will now have to pay $4 per month to rent the cable modem necessary to use its crappy internet. Here’s how to buy your own modem and stick it to the man, no matter where you live. Because screw you, Time Warner. More »
Followers of FreedomPop’s saga have seen the fledgling data-only provider make a few audacious claims: providing free bandwidth, for one, and basing its 4G device lineup as much on iPhone sleeve cases as on traditional access points. Add another one to the list — the MVNO is planning to switch from Clearwire’s WiMAX network to Sprint’s LTE before 2012 is over. While FreedomPop is still planning to go forward with WiMAX for the initial deployment, it’s now looking to use tri-mode EV-DO, LTE and WiMAX modems and phone cases just months later. We’ll see if that leads to existing iPhone 4 and 4S owners getting an LTE fix without having to spring for a new phone; marketing VP Tony Miller wouldn’t tell GigaOM more. Either way, it’s a mixed blessing for data addicts that might find themselves crashing that much faster through the 500MB regular cap on free data.
Filed under: Wireless, Networking
FreedomPop jumping from WiMAX to LTE by year’s end, iPhone sleeves intact originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 11 Jul 2012 16:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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