Sometimes I forget that you are not old enough to have been around when modems were the fastest and most wanted device for bbs and early internet connections. For this reason I can see your facination with wanting to get such old hardware working with the Amiga.

But for the rest of us certain standards and hardware isn't nostalgic for us or something we would want to revert to, and the biggest of such hardware has to be the dial-up modem. I hated them back when I had to use one, and I hate them just as much now. Slow, unreliable (dropping the line when mid game or download), sometimes annoying to configure etc... In contrast, these days broadband is fast, you can share a connection between multiple machines, no connecting each time, or dropped lines. A complete contrast.

BTW, 56K modems first appeared in 1996. In 1991 the v32 modem was standard with a speed of 19.2K. So yes it was even slower, but in 1991 the internet we know today didn't exist. There were no webpages or search engines. You had to log into BBS servers or directly to FTP servers. You has to know the exact details to log into these too, not like the internet today where you can browse around from site to site. In those days 19.2K was fast enough to browse the text based interfaces of BBS systems. Today a modem is too slow and is out of date to be of any practical use.

well, used to, until recently when I finally decided that the internet is too boring to continue to use regulaly
How come the sudden change of interest in the internet? Annoyed too many forums? What do you do all day Steve if you don't use the internet? Saying the internet is boring is quite a strange comment when you consider the internet contains information about anything and everything in the world. Only a boring user with no interests could possible find it boring as they wouldn't be able to think of anything to look at.