If you were born after wifi, the dial-up modem noise is what electronics used to sound like: dated, from the era of the fax machine and the non-customizable ringtone. To me, it’s more than that. The ...

Uhhh. Define crackling noise. It's not a modem noise is it? Because I've known modems to output their sound through the speakers, in which case you'd have to turn the sound down or off through the ...

Look in your sound control panel. There might be something about "Modem WAV Out". Mute that and it should turn off the sound. Ifound out that sometimes look at your settings in your ISP. For example, ...