On September 30, 2025, AOL will officially shut down its dial-up internet service, concluding over three decades of slow, noisy, modem-based connections. Once the dominant way millions accessed the web, dial-up operated at painfully slow speedsāaround 0.056 Mbps at its peakāand has now been overtaken by broadband technologies offering hundreds or even thousands of Mbps. [ā¦]