Re: Apple 2's online?

[Sandra Warnken <warnken@mother.com>]

Actually I am online with a IIGS.  My modem is 33.6K but as my software
supports 19.9k then jumps to 38K ad 56K I wound up setting the speed at
38K and it works great.  When I had the Transwarp accelerator card on this
machine went even faster.

I do have the SIS browser,  but I much prefer using Lynx.  It does the IRC
chats fine.  Web pages in text are viewable depending on how the text 
is incorporated.  For example Seiko's website is nothing but links.  I
never did find the link to the webmaster to write an email saying I could
see no information.  The University of California at Davis has beautiful
pictures.  On my husband's PC going from one link to the next took a very 
long time whenever there was a picture to view.  On the GS the data was
there viewable almost as fast as I could select the link I wanted to
follow.  Sometimes a website will say it supports frames only.  Usually
it's a matter of going through the links to find the one that has the
text.

Newsgroups are no problem either.  It's a little more a matter of learning
to navigate in lynx.  I find even the help is not always understandable.

If you get Marinetti, Spectrum and SAM the GS can connect the standard
way (PPP/TCP).

As an aside my husband just got a new PC and the best his 56K modem has 
ever done is 33.6 on the same phone line I use.  Mostly he gets 28.8k or
less.  

Finding an ISP with a shell account is necessary.

Sandy

On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Roy and/or Janet Miller wrote:

> xenafat wrote:
> 
> > I'm curious as to how much one could actually do online w/ a souped-up apple
> > 2. can they do the following:
> >
> > 1) IRC chatrooms
> > 2) render web pages on-screen as text-only
> > 3) view and respond to newsgroups
> 
> If you have a shell account with your ISP, then your Apple II is becomes,
> basically, a unix terminal, and all that you can do from that shell you can do
> with your II.
> 
> >
> >
> > And can Apple 2's use 56k modems? Can they be hooked up to an ethernet
> > network and configured, either directly or via a proxy server, to use
> > cable/dsl?
> 
> From my reading, I believe the upper limit is 19.2, so a 14.4 modem might be as
> fast as you can go (though I though 9600 was the limit.) However, when you are
> dealing with pure text transmission, even 9600 is pretty fast!
> 
> >
> >
> > Just wondering. Thanx
> 
> 
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