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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: orange on September 22, 2004, 02:44:01 PM

Title: surfing with parallel
Post by: orange on September 22, 2004, 02:44:01 PM

I have connected A1200 to Internet using PCMCIA LAN card.
A4000D is connected to that A1200 with parallel net.
I've managed to access shared directories on PC from A4000D (via A1200), but I'd like to read mail and surf on A4000D, too. (because A1200 is too slow for that)
Is it possible and how?

Title: Re: surfing with parallel
Post by: bloodline on September 22, 2004, 02:45:37 PM

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orange wrote:
I have connected A1200 to Internet using PCMCIA LAN card.
A4000D is connected to that A1200 with parallel net.
I've managed to access shared directories on PC from A4000D (via A1200), but I'd like to read mail and surf on A4000D, too. (because A1200 is too slow for that)
Is it possible and how?

Accessing the internet throught a Parallel connection would probably be really slow :-o

Title: Re: surfing with parallel
Post by: lmclouth on September 22, 2004, 03:25:34 PM

Not necessarily.

Depending on your internet connection (mine is dialup),
surfing using the parallel port is plenty fast enough.
Considering even on a fast dialup connection (50K a
second), the parallel port easily has that much bandwidth.

Before I had a router, I used my A4000 connected directly
to the MODEM through a GVP IO serial port.  Then used
PARNET (running SOCKS5) to connect my A3000 to the
internet.


Lamar

Title: Re: surfing with parallel
Post by: Acill on September 22, 2004, 03:40:46 PM

He is asking how to do it. Why not share that? I think it would be neat to do something like that.