13 April 2017, 12:25 | #1 | |
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WiFi RS-232 Modem
Searched the forum and didn't find any occurence of this, which I find quite interesting.
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13 April 2017, 22:56 | #2 |
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I've seen it on Twitter. There are also pictures of the early versions of this RS232 WIFI modem.
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30 April 2017, 19:13 | #3 |
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RS232 WiFi Modem.
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30 April 2017, 20:44 | #4 |
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I was considering building a null modem over Ethernet adapter, something along the lines of the Plipbox. Only, it would connect 2 Amigas as if they were joined directly with a serial cable so would work in games that support a null modem connection.
It looks like this is something similar. Or could be hacked in that direction |
30 April 2017, 20:55 | #5 |
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There's something called Parnet cable. It's fast and you can connect between two Amigas.
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30 April 2017, 23:19 | #6 |
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I have (or will have as soon as a certain pair of Netgear FA411 cards turn up... ) Ethernet on all my Amigas. That's fine for data transfer between machines but no use for non-workbench games that use a null modem cable.
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01 May 2017, 07:00 | #7 |
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lol that's my pic from twitter.
Received the kit last week and built it yesterday. Took about 15ish minutes to solder together. Works brilliantly and sooooo much better than the bulky Lantronix setup I was using. Will have a video review in the next week or so after some more testing on other platforms. |
01 May 2017, 09:21 | #8 |
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Could it be self-powered via serial??
Thanks, McT |
01 May 2017, 10:18 | #9 |
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I look forward to your video review. Can you post it here as well? |
01 May 2017, 14:30 | #10 |
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No. There is not enough power provided by the Amiga serial port. Plus it's designed to be used by pretty much any computer with a serial port and most serial ports don't provide any power.
However you could use the Amiga floppy drive port to provide power to it. |
14 May 2017, 08:33 | #11 |
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Great WiFi232 modem review by AmigaLove.
https://amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=243 |
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For the more visually oriented kittens, Clint from Lazy Game Reviews has dedicated a full video to a review of the device which is also very much worth watching for anyone who's curious as to what the experience feels like. [ Show youtube player ] |
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21 July 2017, 08:27 | #13 |
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21 July 2017, 08:40 | #14 |
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Unfortunately, it is next to impossible to purchase it, you have to be extremely lucky - I'm checking this web page nearly everyday, but it seems all the batches gets sold out really quickly. A pity there is no waiting queue
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21 July 2017, 09:34 | #15 |
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I just use a raspberry pi zero for this.
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21 July 2017, 09:52 | #16 |
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I use a laptop with a usb rs232 adapter + linux. Sure, those wifi modems are in a convenient package, but on the other hand, I always have my laptop with me/around me.
I understand there is a simple gui program to achieve this with Windows too. |
21 July 2017, 16:05 | #17 |
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Would you mind sharing how you did this? A kind of tutorial. I am really interested and have too many Zeros around doing nothing.
What I have done in the past successfully is creating a PP connection via serial to an Amiga from a PC using Linux, so this ought to be similar. I don't know how that would work with terminal though, because what this thing does, i I am not wrong, is basically convert AT commands to telnet or something? That's the part I don't get. I know you could use a telnet client on Amiga, but I would not want to do that, I want to use NComm or something. |
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Yeah, I got lucky - I picked up the kit to save a few bucks and recently completed the assembly. You really do have to check everyday and possibly multiple times a day. This thing works great. I'm using it on my TI for now until I can install a solution for jumper settings. That's my only criticism of this device. The Amiga needs hardware flow control and this device only supplies solder pads to enable that and some other settings. So if you want to use it as intended for the Amiga , you'll have to do a solder bridge that is a permanent alteration to the board. i don't want to do that. I want the option of configuring it anyway I see fit according to whatever computer I want to attach it to. so I'm probably going to solder wires to the pads and attach jumper blocks.
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21 July 2017, 18:43 | #20 |
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You learn new things every day. I didn't know this existed, that is brilliant!
I gotta remember how to setup a PPP link now, and use a Zero to connect. Oh and finally figure out AmiTCP, because I refuse to use Miami ever again. Thanks idrougge! |
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