Words similar to dial-up
Example sentences for: dial-up
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It introduced its own version of AOL's instant-messenger software and said it will offer similar dial-up service for less or no money.
Today the "Technology Journal" section of the Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft is trying to steal AOL's dial-up business by offering the same service for little or no money.
Also, the standard off-peak rate for local phone calls here is less than 2 U.S. cents per minute, which scarcely makes dial-up access to an ISP a "luxury."
Specific control activities include frequent changes of dial-up numbers; use of dial-back access; restrictions on users to allow access only to system functions that they need; software and hardware "firewalls" to restrict access to assets, computers, and networks by external persons; and frequent changes of passwords and deactivation of former employees' passwords.
In the first place, getting service at the rate he quotes requires a dial-up phone line connection to an ISP for the upstream link (there is a much-higher-priced two-way service).