Cheap Ethernet solution for Classic Amigas

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I am in the same boat, if someone had a $100 solution for internet (even slow) for my Amiga 500 I would totally buy it.  Specially now that I ordered a ACA 500 for mine, it will be a much more useful machine.

Currently I have 2 cheap solutions, one is use a Linux computer or Raspberry Pi and access the internet via it's console shell (Lynx).  This is rather more limited but it works on all Amigas even the Amiga 1000 with WB 1.3.

I wrote a tutorial on how to do this.

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=67191

Second is use a Raspberry Pi or Linux machine (virtual or physical) to host a PPP connection over Serial.  I am still working on that since there is no clear Amiga tutorial that gives you the whole picture.  But I think I am close, once I get it going I will share a tutorial with the correct settings.


Also I am sick of everyone always pointing to getting a 1200 as a solution.  They are rare in North America and expensive to ship from EU.  The commodore 64 has a version of Lynx and can easily (slowly) surf the internet for about $100, the Amiga 500/2000 should be able to as well.

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Yessum, I don't consider using another system as a file server/terminal as a proper solution as then the host machine is not a standalone system - very messy.
 
The sad thing is my C64 has native Ethernet access via my MMC64 / RR-Net setup. Along with the IDE64 it has attached, I have access to 400GB of high speed disk access, a DVD Burner and Ethernet.... in fact, the Telnet client available for the C64 is amazing....
 
.... and this is a <1mhz C64!!!
 
Surprisingly, no one has written an Amiga driver for the RR-Net even though it plugs into the MMC64 clockport which itself is a clone of the Amiga clockports.
 
From memory Jens looked into it and said there was no point as the way the RR-Net worked (some form of polling system) you could only get about 50kb per second from it. This is crazy as 50kb per second would be HEAPS for 99.9% of classic Amiga networking.
 
Only 10 years ago most of the world was using V90 dial up modems which can get 5kb per second on a good day. This was fine for browsing then, you cant tell me TEN times that is not good enough for basic browsing now?
 
Of course, with a classic miggy you are not going to be visiting youtube etc etc, so 50kb per second would be loads.

Totally agree, my c64 can get online easily, the A500/1000 should as well.