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    p> None of the wireless would support anything more than WEP though   
    p> right?   
   -=>> Joacim Melin wrote to Richard Menedetter <=-   
      
    RM>> Hi poison!   
      
    RM>> 11 May 2020 10:15, from poison -> All:   
      
    po>>> I am kind of interested in playing with an Amiga. What would be good   
    po>>> still usable hardware that would work on the internet?   
      
    RM>> I have an Amiga 1200 that I connected to the Internet once.   
    RM>> It has IDE and PCMCIA connectors.   
      
    RM>> I used telnet and ftp on it.   
      
    RM>> You can use wired Ethernet and WiFi PCMCIA cards.   
    RM>> You need to have a driver for them.   
    RM>> There are some supported Ethernet cards and 1 or 2 WiFi cards.   
      
    RM>> I think I used a Lucent WiFi card with an OPEN network.   
    RM>> (I think in the meantime one of the drivers support WPA ???)   
      
    JM>> I've only used wired cards. There are actually many PCMCIA cards to   
    JM>> choose from and many of the 3Com cards from the time works (and   
    JM>> Farallon which was based on 3com:s chipset). If nothing else you can   
    JM>> always buy a card for like 30 euros (or dollars) complete with the   
    JM>> software needed to get going.   
      
    JM>> If you go for an older Amiga you can get a ethernet or wifi card for   
    JM>> the A2000 (X-Surf-100,   
    JM>> https://icomp.de/shop-icomp/en/shop/product/x-surf-100.html) or the   
    JM>> PlipBix for the A500 or any other Amiga   
    JM>> (http://amigaonthelake.com/amiga-plipbox-parallel-port-ethernet-adapter/   
    JM>> ).   
    JM>>  The Plipbox is _slow_ but it will at least get you connected to a   
    JM>> network and allow you to transfer files via FTP. NFS or SMB is not   
    JM>> recommended for that.   
      
   Dunno to be honest. Haven't touched Wifi-stuff for the Amiga for many, many   
   years.  There are also wifi modems for the C64/128 that actually works with   
   WPA so I suppose it's not entirely impossible that WPA would work with the   
   Amiga.    
      
      
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