Roadshow for 68K -Needs your support!

[Karlos]

A newer network stack for classics would indeed be no bad thing.

[Karlos]

It is somewhat complicated, but luckily there's a great guide about it:

http://www.acc.umu.se/~patrikax/amiga/guides/AmiTCP_Install/

This is exactly the guide I was looking for in a previous thread. Now to find the thread :lol:

[Karlos]

How is running a router and an OS4.1 computer more energy efficient than just running an OS4.1 computer?

When your ADSL modem is built into your router, you don't really have much alternative. Besides, most people have more than one networked device. Who would want to run a full computer to service them all when a compact little router does the job for a few watts of power?

[Karlos]

* not every Amiga in the world is connected via ADSL (sheesh)

I guess I'm one of the lucky ones

All my "used more than once in a blue moon" Amigas have a NIC in them. Only my not-working A600 is presently without one.

If I ever needed to use them all at once online though, I'd need an extra switch :lol:

[Karlos]

Heh, that's funny - I meant it the other way around, not all Amiga users are unlucky enough to have to suffer from the misbehaviour that ADSL causes :lol:

Well, AmiTCP on the classic machines and Roadshow on the OS4 box never gave me any problems with my router. It's true that AmiTCP doesn't do DHCP, but all I did was to reserve IP addresses for all the devices that are permanently on the network that the classics might have to talk to and leave anything transient to get whatever address DHCP wants to give it out of what's left.

[Karlos]

PCMCIA NE2000 card with cnet.device 1.9, Roadshow 4.294, A1200HD (14 MHz 68EC020; 4 MBytes of fast memory)
480 KByte/s

Wow, that's at least 30% faster than my PCMCIA NIC with a 68040 / AmiTCP