Quote Originally Posted by Stephen Coates View Post
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.
ISPs must love you Steve. Their favourite customers are those that pay for an internet connection and then never push the connection at all. Means they have minimum overheads serving you your connection.

As we have all stated at various points in the past, none of the rest of us could manage via a dial-up connection at all any more. The range of activities available online these days and the speed difference even loading a single webpage is so big that we couldn't stomach it.

I also disagree with you regarding dial-up being OK for looking at websites. This may have been tolerable when websites were all static html based pages, but now nearly every website is serving pages dynamically and using Web 2 based technology to make the users experience unique and interactive. Using such technology via dial-up would not be easy, and I can imagine in a lot of cases a modem would be too slow to cope and the connection would time out between the server and browser trying to run many site pages these days.

Although I expect you only mainly view pages created in the 90's. After all, why would you need modern websites. Surely those created a the dawn of the internet are good enough for you!