Ami to PC Linkup

[drHirudo]

I use PC2Amiga via Parallel cable now. It gives me speed about 40KB/s which is not that bad. The computer shop didn't have parallel-parallel cable, so I bought two Parallel printer cables, cut them and built one Parallel-Parallel cable, after consulting PC2Amiga manuals how to connect the wires. It took me some time though, to figure out which colored wire is for which pin number, and used a speaker for this. Before that I used NetworkPC which is the commercial version of PC2Amiga, and comes with cable, but I didn't have the cable, so I used serial cable which gave me a speed of about 8KB/s, which for small files was ok, but for the big ones was a nightmare.
 One strange feature to me is that transfering files from the PC to the Amiga is slower than the other way around, despite the fact the PC is much more powerful (through the serial and the parallel conection as well). Not sure why this. Also you can't browse the Amiga directories from the PC side, but that's not a big problem, since you can copy files to the PC from the Amiga.

[drHirudo]

While on this topic:
Does somebody knows if it is possible to have PPP connection to a Windows PC from Amiga, but instead of using null-modem cable (I have only 3-wire one)to use the 4-Wire LapLink parallel cable? I.E. if drivers/configurations for this exist?

[drHirudo]

Interesting. Sounds like another project for me...
What Amiga are you using?
How long is the connection from your Amiga to your PC?

Can you connect to internet via TCP with the Amiga?

My Amiga is standart A4000D with 040/25Mhz and 16MB FastRAM.

Well I cut the first cable in about 20 cm from the printer part and the second in about 20 cm from the parralel part, so all in all the final cable must be as long as a single cable which on the box says 1.8m (haven't metred it though).

If I can use TCP on the Amiga via this cable I would turn off the PC monitor and use the machine only for gateway. :-D
Theoretically it's possible but in practice I wasn't able to find the right software for this, neither on the PC side nor on the Amiga.

Also PC2Amiga crashes sometimes when I use Dopus with the local Amiga drawers (very rarely but still), while NetworkPC never crashed so far in usage for about 2 and half months. But I used different connections so a comparasion is irrelevelant.