Quote Originally Posted by Harrison View Post
Well, as quickly as a 56K modem can do things, which when compared to current connects is very slow. A theoretical Maximum 7KB/s (56Kbps) on a 56K modem compared to a theoretical Maximum of 1MB/s (8,192Kbps) via an 8Mbit Broadband Max connection, or an even higher 3MB/s (24,576Kbps) via ADSL2. These figures just show how out of date and dead dialup 56K modem connections now really are.

Have you tried connecting your Amiga's via ethernet to broadband yet Steve? Would make a big difference.
That isn;t possible because I don;t have an ethernet controller, which is the exact reason I wanted a 56k modem.

Do bear in mind that this is the A500+.

And somehow, I can't see ADSL being much different with IRC on such a computer. Or Web sites for that matter. As the speed is really limited by the speed of the serial port and of the computer itself. e.g. IRC via the v34 modem on the A1200 seemed faster than IRC on the A500+ via the v90 modem due to the A1200's Blizard.

I can chat on IRC on a modern PC over a 56k modem and the only noticabe difference in speed between that and ADSL is when it connects and displays the MOTD, which takes a couple of seconds longer.

When I said about typing the text in, I could press a key and it would take about a second to appear on the screen. The time delay between me pressing return and the text being sent to the server and appearing in the channel window was not much different to that of the PC for one reason - it is a small bit of text.