Modems

[Harrison]

Why does no one ever look on Maplin? Go to www.maplin.co.uk and look at the computer cable section. They have serial gender changers including a 9 to 25 pin changer, and 25 to 9 pin cables.

[TiredOfLife]

Have been to Maplins in the past, thought they were a bit pricey.

[Stephen Coates]

Why does no one ever look on Maplin? Go to www.maplin.co.uk and look at the computer cable section. They have serial gender changers including a 9 to 25 pin changer, and 25 to 9 pin cables.

I always tend to look at Maplin first as I have their catalogue and they do not have what I require.

[Harrison]

Maplin do have what you need if you look but TiredOfLife is right, they are pricey. The null modem cable, plus the gender converter you would need would come to £15

But I just thought of another site I used to use a lot called http://www.cableuniverse.co.uk and they have some very good prices.

I just looked and they have a 9pin female to 25pin female cable for £5.77:
http://www.cableuniverse.co.uk/catal...roducts_id=258

And you would need a gender changer for the 9pin end which costs only £0.95p:
http://www.cableuniverse.co.uk/catal...products_id=42

So that is much cheaper at a combined price of £6.72p. Hope that helps.

[Stephen Coates]

I already have a Null modem cable, so wouldn;t need to buy one. I use it for other things though as well.

I need to buy some 9 pin an 25 pin connectors anyway so I'll just make my own.

[Stephen Coates]

I am pleased to say that i finally made a cable, and got the moddem set up and working.

The TCP/IP stack I used is Miami.

I tested the internet connection using AmIRC. I will try and use AWEB, but I'm not sure if it is compatible with WB2.04.

IRC wasn't too slow. It took ages for text to appear after I typed it in, but it went straight into the channel window after pressing return, and other things were done nice a quickly.

[Harrison]

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 These figures just show how out of date and dead dialup 56K modem connections now really are.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.

[Submeg]

Its pretty funny....our ISP hasnt sent us a bill in over a year...prob doesnt even realise we are still using it...

[Stephen Coates]

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.