Cheap Ethernet solution for Classic Amigas

[danbeaver]

If you want to Cerf the net on an A500/1000 and don't care about speed, then use a modem and dial-up connection.  If you need to download files, then sneakernet is cheapest.  There are ParNet/SerNet solutions, but I'd just buy an old A2000 and one of the used Zorro2 NIC cards for another $100 and go that route.  To Cerf in modern terms you need an accelerator and at least 10 MB/s connection using OWB or similar.  Otherwise Cerf on a modern device and sneakernet files by floppy or CDROM.

I could be wrong now.

[danbeaver]

There was is information on this subject on the Lemon Amiga Forum and I actually have one of the modules I got a few years back, I just never got that "into" it.

[danbeaver]

A modem and dialup connection are cheaper and was the standard 20 years ago; Termite TCP and IBrowse worked fine and I still have my original disks.  As for the A500 and A2000, I still have AppleTalk networking hardware and software that put them online 20 years ago.  But for modern Cerfing, I would get a more modern computer and A1200's are available to US buyers, as are all the other models with the A2000 still able to handle "moderate" Cerfing with a NIC, RTG, and an accelerator.