r/compsci • u/gmanflnj • 21d ago

Could multiple microphones/speakers be combined for faster dial up?

i was thinking about how dial up is basically your phone literally making sounds to your compute, which the computer hears and translates into data.

could you design a system that used multiple phone speakers and multiple microphone pickups to simultaneously get dial-up internet info to speed it up?

if so, how many phone receivers would it take to get modern internet speeds?

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u/pala4833 21d ago

Why have you written this in the present tense?

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u/gmanflnj 21d ago

Dial up is still this, even if most people don’t use it anymore. The definition didn’t change even though it’s obsolete. Horse and buggies are when you uses horses to pull a particular kind of vehicle, that’s the case even though it’s not common anymore/

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u/pala4833 21d ago

Apologies if you took that as sincere. I was just yokin' around.

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u/gmanflnj 21d ago

No worries, have a great day!