A1200 - Alternative to PCMCIA for internet

[mykrowyre]

Meh. I use an old MN-520 PCMCIA card, and I picked up a Linksys WRT54G on ebay for $5.  Yeah I use WEP with a 128 bit key.  I turned on mac filtering and turned off broadcasting so only my Amiga can connect and I only turn on the router when I use my Amiga... about an hour or two once or twice a week.

Sure someone could wait around fo the hour that my router is on, sniff out a network that isn't broadcasting, spoof my mac, and hack my wifi, but the likelihood of that happening is pretty small unless they live next door, pointing a yagi at me, and waiting for me to power it up a network they don't know exists.  I live in a rural area so that is very unlikely.

It was cheaper than buying a new card for $100 that supports AES, and finding another  B/G router that is compatible with the updated yet outdated card.

One could also bump key your front door and walk right into your house and take anything they want. It's even easier than hacking wifi.

[kolla]

@mykrowyre

Well, that’s a perfectly reasonable way to do it.

[Ferry]

Would an USB-to-Ethernet adapter work connected to a USB clockport board (RapidRoad, Subway)? The first are inexpensive, the second are more expensive and harder to find, but in return you get USB ports.

Saluditos,

Ferrán.

[Boing-ball]

Would an USB-to-Ethernet adapter work connected to a USB clockport board (RapidRoad, Subway)? The first are inexpensive, the second are more expensive and harder to find, but in return you get USB ports.

Saluditos,

Ferrán.

The RapidRoad is a bit unobtainable these days as Icomp don’t make or sell them anymore. Plus they were prone to going pop if you used the wrong power supply. The Subway I haven’t used. But again these rely on the Amigas Clockport which is slow. I tried to get USB to Ethernet working on my A1200 with a RapidRoad and it’s quite hard to do, even though Posiedon stack did see the adapter, you still need a NIC that uses the RTL chip.

[kolla]

I’d pick a314cp over usb+ethernet.

[klx300r]

 @ sheepz
I love my A314-cp it's not as fast as ethernet but it's a nice small internal solution for an A1200

[Ferry]

Fingers crossed there will be a proper EMU68 wired network solution for the PiStorm and Pi

You can use Musashi in the meantime for big DLs. You can even have a dual booting card, with both Musashi and Emu68 in the same card booting from the same WB, I posted the HOW-TO to the PiStorm wiki some time ago:

https://github.com/captain-amygdala/pistorm/wiki/Musashi-and-Emu68-on-the-same-%C2%B5SD,-booting-from-the-same-drive

I even made a small video about it.

That way you can just reboot into Musashi when you need Internet, and back to Emu68 when finished, you'll find all things you dl'ed just there, because you are using the very same drive. Easy-peasy… 😉

Saluditos,

Ferrán.

[Boing-ball]

@sheepz

Just to throw this into the mix…

If you have a SCSI setup. Then there is now a way to do Wireless Networking with a BlueSCSI V2. I have obtained this with the necessary controller. When I get chance will see If I can get it to work with my B1260+MKIV SCSI or even my BPPC + SCSI setup.

Obviously the wifipi is now getting closer as well…

[AmigaBruno]

There is a WODEM called new serial to WLAN adapter recently released, but it is not as fast as you would like it to be.
I'd prefer the PCMCIA solution or maybe a ClockPort card, the a314cp as an exotic solution.
Since you have a tower case there might be an option to add a bus board to it.

Very Interesting! I hadn't noticed this before! I've recently connected an Aiptek Hyperpen 6000 which has a 9 pin connector using a 9 pin to 25 pin adapter. It requires a driver called FormAldiHyd, but it works!

As for this WLAN adapter, I can see how it would be possible to connect it using the same adapter I bought to connect the Aiptek graphics tablet. However, it would probably need some software or a specific driver for this cable to get it working. I may have all the Internet software, including one or more browsers, and the TCP/IP stack already set up on a CF card I bought from a well known, trustworthy seller on eBay.

Of course, this would just be an alternative to transfers of files downloaded from the Internet on another computer, then transferred to my Amiga A1200 using a CF card. It could be for Aminet downloads, transferring artwork via email, and a couple of other things. I always used to use Amigas to create things and sometimes used BBSs. With modern computers, they're used mainly for the Internet!

How could I connect to the Internet using this cable on my A1200?

[sheepz]

Hi All

After a lot of trying I could not get the A314cp to connect to the internet so I have given up and sold my towered on eBay.

I am not very good with Discord etc so couldn't find much info, need to slim down my collection anyway!

Regards

Barry