... > Is it possible to get DSL or some other high speed such as ISDN with a > apple II? I have an Apple II on the internet. well actually I have 3 that could get there "sort of" You will need either of two peripherals: a LANceGS ethernet card or an older Macintosh. With the LANCE, you basically just set it up a IIgs on Marinetti 2.0 or greater. Then you would use any of the various Internet apps for access. The IIgs here can directly speak to your router, or to a hub if you do not have a router that can self-switch to 10based T (the Lance is a 10bt NIC). The other way is to use Marinetti 3.0 or greater and run the Mac as a bridge between Localtalk and Ethernet, and the IIgs using Marinetti 3.0 to access TCP/IP via MacIP. If you are not familiar with these terms I would suggest referring to either the information on www.syndicomm.com on networking (specifically the a2central.com articles on the LANceGS), or the articles I have written for Digital Civilization/ Call A.P.P.L.E on networking, or both. Also I would suggest reviewing csa2 archives on the subject of networking. There have been some excellent write-ups on networking the Apple II (even ones I wrote even) over the years. -Bart Keeper of the Network from Heck On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 05:46:32 +0000 (UTC), tturner@ecn.ab.ca () wrote: >If you've got (or know of) specific info that would allow me to network my >2e and/or 2gs, directly to my current PC network, via (one supposes) >LANce cards & specific A2 software; WITHOUT being forced to use a Mac; >I'd love to read it. (& I'm not anti-Mac - I'll get one, one of these >days, just not in the near future...) It just feels... `cleaner' (simpler >& possibly more elegant), to just hang them onto my network, without >running them through a (older, more capable, big brother) Mac - as if they Nitpick: The Mac is the Apple II's little brother seeing as it is about 7 years yonger. :-) As to networking an Apple II to the PC, there isn't a whole lot of options. You can use a LANceGS card to connect your IIgs to an ethernet network that is set up to use TCP/IP for moving data around. However, you can't map a network drive or anything for file sharing. All you can do is run the TCP/IP applications that are available for the IIgs to access your PC and this means setting up a web or FTP server on your PC for your IIgs to connect to. Andrew Roughan is still working on getting MS-CHAP to work with Marinetti so hopefully in the not too distant future we'll be able to connect to the PC using a null modem cable. If we could get someone port Samba to the IIgs we'd be all set. :-) -- Jeff Blakeney - Dean of the Apple II University in the Apple II Community on Syndicomm.com CUT the obvious from my address if you want to e-mail me > Is it possible to get DSL or some other high speed such as ISDN with a > apple II? Yes, and I have done so using my LANceGS card. Caveat: you need a static IP address and router or another computer to do the IP forwarding. > and yet the A2 FAQS do not have a specific, separate, section on > Networking the A2 series (2e or 2gs) computers. Jeff, wanna collect this stuff and create one? > If you've got (or know of) specific info that would allow me to network my > 2e and/or 2gs, directly to my current PC network Hooking it into your network is a no brainer now that the LANceGS card is available, but what you want is communication between the disparate computers. There is little to no software available to allow an Apple II to communicate with another PC for file exchange or printer sharing. (I'm ignoring Appletalk and the Macs.) They simply do not share enough common elements to make that easy. (Caveat Peter Watson and MUG!) That being said, there is IIgs native software to browse the web and FTP files from an FTP server. There is a POP3 e-mail client and a couple of other applications that are network aware. More are being done but anyone who wants to try to program an application, should. I want a news group reader! (Anyone remember 2QWK? It ran on my A2 and on the BBS I was dialed in to. It allowed me to send/receive e-mail and newsgroup postings via packets I would down/upload.) Thankx, Ed