Modems

[Stephen Coates]

I still want to get an internet connection on my A500+, but am still not sure what I need to do about modems.

Would I be fine withjust a standard v90 serial modem or do i need an amiga specific one?

Cheers
Steve

[TiredOfLife]

You don't need Amiga specific modems to connect to the internet, just the right software.

[Harrison]

Yep, the modem isn't really important, as long as you can find software to control it. You would therefore probably be better off with an external modem made around the mid 90's or earlier because it would be more likely that others used them with Amigas too.

[Stephen Coates]

So just a modem and TCP/IP software then?

On my A1200 I just stuck my v34 PCMCIA modem into the PCMCIA slot and installed the TCP/IP stack (forgot what it was called) and it worked. For some reason though it didn;t work with my Force 9 dialup account. It did however work first time with Freeola.

[Harrison]

That is good to know you managed to get a PCMCIA modem to work with the A1200. Especially when you consider that a PCMCIA modem was not a common hardware item back in the Amiga days. External Modems that connected to the serial port were the common type back then and would need specific drivers to work.

Is useful to know the PCMCIA modem worked in case others are looking for a similar solution. BTW, what make was the modem?

[Stephen Coates]

This is the modem:
http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/5233/sta60022pk4.jpg

You can get 56k versions but I don;t have one so can't say whether it works.

I don;t know how old it is but I know that the one shown in the photograph existed in 1997.

It was dead easy to set up on the Amiga, as it is on a Macintosh (just stick it into the slot, go into the modem control panel, select themodem and select Generic PC Card Modem)