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Re: is a A2000 internet capable?
« on: August 06, 2006, 02:54:29 PM »
It's technically possible, but that's about as positive as you can talk about it. Prepare to be pull your hair out because of the painstakingly slow process. I don't even like to surf the web on my A1200 with Blizzard 1260 and 128 MB. Many webpages will not display correctly and the ones that more or less do are far to slow to be usable.
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Re: is a A2000 internet capable?
« Reply #1 on: August 07, 2006, 07:56:30 AM »
To refine my previous posting:
- FTP/IRC/Usenet & e-mail work nicely on my Amiga;
- browsing is hell. Even when only visiting Aminet.

It's not because of the lack of colours or the rather low resolution*, but it is só painstakingly slow... Problem is, my main Amiga (A1200) has a huge amount of upgrades, but still uses AGA. Which is a huge bottleneck for browsing. When my budget permits, I am going to upgrade my A3000. With a GFX-card, surfing would be a much nicer experience, about comparable to browsing with IE3/4 on a lowend Pentium 1.

If it's for filetransfers, you should use FTP or the like. Works much smoother.

*I use highres-interlace with full overscan on a 15" CRT. I like the image but it consumes lots of bandwidth, thus amplifying speedproblems while surfing...
Life sucks. Then you die. Then they throw mud in your face. Then you get eaten by worms. Be happy it happens in that order... My Amiga 1200