I got my WiModem232 yesterday and had some time to play with it today. 1. I could not get it to communicate reliably at any speed > 600 BPS. Anything over that and it dropped characters. As far as I know the cable I'm using is a straight through 25 pin male to male cable. So hardware flow control should work. 2. My WiFi's password "Was a really long passphrase, eh?". I had to shorten the passphrase to allow it to connect to my WiFi. It refused to connect with my long password with spaces in it. 3. Network scanning didn't work. Known bug that a new firmware will fix, but you have to get it connected to your WiFi do to that.
After figuring out those things, I did a quick connect to a random telnet BBS and it worked fine. On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 11:44 AM, Sean Fahey <a2...@hotmail.com> wrote: > It should work fine. > > > Note that there are at least 2 different (but nearly identical in function) > devices. The WIFI232 (http://biosrhythm.com/?page_id=1453) is the device > that has been tested most on various retro platforms. The WiModem232 > *should* operate in much the same way. I have a couple on order and arriving > any day now. I'll be testing them with my T100 and T102, and other > platforms. > > > > On Dec 27, 2017, at 10:22 AM, Jörg Erren <joerg.er...@gmx.de> wrote: > > Dear friends, > > > > I own an NEC PC8300 and I would like to go online, perhaps visit a BBS etc. > > Now I stumbled across this: > > https://www.cbmstuff.com/proddetail.php?prod=WiModem232OLED > > > > Question: Would this work to get my PC8300 online so I can visit a BBS (like > Nostromo, The Cave, whatever)? > > > > Cheers from Germany > > Jörg > > -- Ron Lauzon - rlauzon at acm dot org Homepage: http://webpages.charter.net/rlauzon/ Weblog: http://ronsapartment.blogspot.com/ TRS-80 Pocket Computer 2 - TRS-80 Pocket Computer 4 - TRS-80 Model 100/102 Some people like to work on old cars. But old computers are cheaper and don't require a big garage.
