I am curious; I have recently acquired an Amiga 500 and 2000 off eBay last year and haven’t really touch it until recently where I learned how to transfer disk images from the PC back to the Amiga and convert it back to disks. Unfortunately, the process is rather slow so my question is this, is there anything available (hardware add on?) to hookup either one of the machine to my existence network with other PCs running Windows XP Pro / Vista? A RJ45 adapter for the classic Amiga maybe?

I'm currently using an old 56k external modem which hook up to the Amiga 2000 and connect to one of my 'very old' Windows ME laptop (only computer that still has a 56k modem in the house). Because I cannot find anything better, I have to use the crappy Hyperterm (on the PC) to connect to the Amiga 2000 using a program called Mindlink. I can establish the connection fine between the two computers but I can only connect at a slow pace 33.6k, which is painfully slow to transfer an image over to the Amiga. For some reason, I cannot connect it faster than 33.6k so it would take about 11 mins in order to transfer a 901k image over. In addition, hyperterm cannot batch transfer so I had to do it one at a time.

While browsing, I saw some post that it's possible to connect an Amiga to the internet, will it work with the old Amiga 500 or 2000?

Thanks for any info.
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