Best way to get my Amiga2000HD on the net

[Garyed40]

Hey all

II just finished putting together a A2000 with 68030 10meg ram and a good HD and was wondering what is the best way to get it on the Net? I have been waiting for ever on ebay for the old Commodore Ethernet card but no luck

Gary

[Darrin]

Unless you have a RTG card then I really wouldn't bother.

I can surf the net on my A4000 fine using iBrowse, but I have a Radeon card, buckets of RAM, 68040 and a USB ethernet adapter.  I shudder to think what a 68030 with 10MB and ECS would be like.

[bbond007]

Unless you have a RTG card then I really wouldn't bother.

I can surf the net on my A4000 fine using iBrowse, but I have a Radeon card, buckets of RAM, 68040 and a USB ethernet adapter.  I shudder to think what a 68030 with 10MB and ECS would be like.

I don't know... having my computer connected to a network is more that just the WWW.

On my A1200 have do have buttons on my iBrowse configured to go to just a few friendly pages (like aminet and the portal Karlos made) but I don't really browse on it.

I'm always using the network though... FTP, SAMBA, IRC, ETC.

I would love to have ethernet on my Minimig 1.1 but i'm stuck with bluetooth serial.

For that 2000 I would look for a Denab and and you could then use a USB network board, and USB it totally useful in other ways. Another good option would be an Xsurf and it comes with a clockport so you could later add a subway. The Denab is the best bet but its made out of unobtainium.

I did have 2000, but I had a hydra board. It lacked RJ45 but you could use a AUI adapter. I set the board for "cheapernet" and connected it via coax to a old cheapo 10mb hub that had a coax port. It still was able transfer around on FTP 400K/sec as I recall.

Good luck getting the 2000 online! You can also try amibay.com. I never purchased anything from there but I like how have it set up to avoid hardware scalpers or whatever like they have on ebay.  Make sure you read all their rules...

[Garyed40]

Unless you have a RTG card then I really wouldn't bother.

I can surf the net on my A4000 fine using iBrowse, but I have a Radeon card, buckets of RAM, 68040 and a USB ethernet adapter.  I shudder to think what a 68030 with 10MB and ECS would be like.

Hey friend

I used to surf the net on a 3000t with a 68030 at 50mhz and lots of ram and it did ok. I have lots of upgrade space with this 2000 should be ok.

Gary

[Garyed40]

I don't know... having my computer connected to a network is more that just the WWW.

On my A1200 have do have buttons on my iBrowse configured to go to just a few friendly pages (like aminet and the portal Karlos made) but I don't really browse on it.

I'm always using the network though... FTP, SAMBA, IRC, ETC.

I would love to have ethernet on my Minimig 1.1 but i'm stuck with bluetooth serial.

For that 2000 I would look for a Denab and and you could then use a USB network board, and USB it totally useful in other ways. Another good option would be an Xsurf and it comes with a clockport so you could later add a subway. The Denab is the best bet but its made out of unobtainium.

I did have 2000, but I had a hydra board. It lacked RJ45 but you could use a AUI adapter. I set the board for "cheapernet" and connected it via coax to a old cheapo 10mb hub that had a coax port. It still was able transfer around on FTP 400K/sec as I recall.

Good luck getting the 2000 online! You can also try amibay.com. I never purchased anything from there but I like how have it set up to avoid hardware scalpers or whatever like they have on ebay.  Make sure you read all their rules...

Thanks Friend

I'll check into those

Gary

[TheBilgeRat]

Hey all

II just finished putting together a A2000 with 68030 10meg ram and a good HD and was wondering what is the best way to get it on the Net? I have been waiting for ever on ebay for the old Commodore Ethernet card but no luck

Gary

The best way to get it on the net is to throw thousands of dollars at it.

[Darrin]

Hey friend

I used to surf the net on a 3000t with a 68030 at 50mhz and lots of ram and it did ok. I have lots of upgrade space with this 2000 should be ok.

Gary

Good luck.  Don't get me wrong, I love the 2000, but my experience of surfing the net on an Amiga is that a graphics card makes things a lot nicer.  If you just want file transfers then the cheapest way is simply a null modem cable and Amiga Explorer to link your Amiga and PC.

Now that I have a Spider in my A4000, I can move my Deneb into my A2000 and use a USB Ethernet dongle on that on connect it to the net.  That said, I alos have a Cybergraphics643D and a 68040 @ 40MHz fitted.

[touringsedan]

I have had great success with the Ariadne I or II ZII network cards. You will need to search here, Amibay and eBay to find one. You shouldn't pay more then 100US for them.

They work great in the 2000 and I use the network card more for file transfers from my Mac desktop then for surfing, as its pretty lame.

But like they said, it may not look nice or be horribly slow to use iBrowse without an RTG card.