1.   Analog modems are basically gadgets for tricking the telephone system by converting the digital computer information into various squawks and squeaks.

2.   Analog modems let PC users connect to each other or to the home office, radically adding to the value of their desktop machines.

3.   Eighty percent of homes have Internet access, and half of those have traded analog modems for high-speed broadband connections.

4.   For years to come, these people will be saddled with slow analog modems.

5.   Gone is the squawk of a traditional analog modem.

6.   If you connect with a regular analog modem over telephone lines, chances are that you have a dynamic address.

7.   ISDN modems, when connected to digital phone lines, will send and receive information more than four times faster than analog modems.

8.   Most growth will be in new technologies, not the analog modems on which Hayes made its name.

9.   Now, dialing up Earthlink takes only a couple of seconds and is eerily quiet, with none of the harsh squealing that accompanies analog modem connections.

10.   Rather than go graphical, WOL keeps the look simple and mostly graphic-free for slower analog modems.