Most common way to connect your Amiga to Internet in 2021?

[Marce]

Originally Posted by Bruce Abbott

I bought it before 33k6 and 56k were a thing, and the Amiga struggled with 56k anyway on the standard serial port.

yep the serial port at 56k consume lot of cpu power
basically u need a 040 or faster to use a 56k modem

[Daedalus]

And you had to be careful of other software using too much in the way of CIA bandwidth. Some programs using lots of interrupts would have a dramatic effect on the connection speed, even without maxing out the CPU.

Additional serial ports made a huge difference - a HyperCOM 3 interface for my A1200 was like a breath of fresh air. The bottleneck was then the modem, not the serial port, and I could even use the other serial port to share the dial-up connection with my PC. Later, when the Mediator came out I was able to share the dial-up connection to my LAN, which worked really well until I finally got broadband.

These days my Amigas are connected a variety of ways: Ethernet (Ariadne 2, PCI or PCMCIA depending on the machine), or occasionally a Wifi PCMCIA card. Serial connections have been relegated to terminal use for debugging etc.

[mahen]

Use cases : IMP of course ! :-)
Speaking of which, I wonder if the upcoming IMPBox will be a kind of plipbox ?

Also, IRC as in the old days, WHDLoad (can check updates) and files transfers.

Question : how do you tweak WHDLoad to disable/re-enable roadshow ?

Cheers