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 p> None of the wireless would support anything more than WEP though
 p> right?
-=>> Joacim Melin wrote to Richard Menedetter <=-

 RM>> Hi poison!

 RM>> 11 May 2020 10:15, from poison -> All:

 po>>> I am kind of interested in playing with an Amiga. What would be good
 po>>> still usable hardware that would work on the internet?

 RM>> I have an Amiga 1200 that I connected to the Internet once.
 RM>> It has IDE and PCMCIA connectors.

 RM>> I used telnet and ftp on it.

 RM>> You can use wired Ethernet and WiFi PCMCIA cards.
 RM>> You need to have a driver for them.
 RM>> There are some supported Ethernet cards and 1 or 2 WiFi cards.

 RM>> I think I used a Lucent WiFi card with an OPEN network.
 RM>> (I think in the meantime one of the drivers support WPA ???)

 JM>> I've only used wired cards. There are actually many PCMCIA cards to
 JM>> choose from and many of the 3Com cards from the time works (and
 JM>> Farallon which was based on 3com:s chipset). If nothing else you can
 JM>> always buy a card for like 30 euros (or dollars) complete with the
 JM>> software needed to get going.

 JM>> If you go for an older Amiga you can get a ethernet or wifi card for
 JM>> the A2000 (X-Surf-100,
 JM>> https://icomp.de/shop-icomp/en/shop/product/x-surf-100.html) or the
 JM>> PlipBix for the A500 or any other Amiga
 JM>> (http://amigaonthelake.com/amiga-plipbox-parallel-port-ethernet-adapter/
 JM>> ).
 JM>>  The Plipbox is _slow_ but it will at least get you connected to a
 JM>> network and allow you to transfer files via FTP. NFS or SMB is not
 JM>> recommended for that.

Dunno to be honest. Haven't touched Wifi-stuff for the Amiga for many, many
years.  There are also wifi modems for the C64/128 that actually works with
WPA so I suppose it's not entirely impossible that WPA would work with the
Amiga. 


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