Using a local ethernet network is a more sagacious plan because downloading on these old machines is slow. I had my former SE/30 hooked up directly to a 10Mbps Charter cable connection, where I once peaked at 1.9MB/sec downloading an update (iOS) from Apple on my mini. The SE/30 peaked at 66KB/sec and no more.
I just put the Duo 2300cTB on the web the other day, and again, 66KB/sec max, but it fluctuates between 50-60KB/sec average. I thought about all kinds of ways to measure the upload but the limitations of iCab make it such that it's just good enough to load the page, but can't do any "advanced" stuff like uploading to the web.
Practically, it's a wee bit faster than 56K was, but not by much. Then there's the problem of decompressing all the archives, which on these machines (especially LCs with their crippled status) is slow.
Boot disks can be created in mini vMac or BII. Mini vMac has an neat speed control feature which can speed up boring operations like rebuilding the desktop to an unthinkable speed compared to a old Mac. The only time that a genuine old Mac is a necessity is creating 400K MFS disk images.
I just put the Duo 2300cTB on the web the other day, and again, 66KB/sec max, but it fluctuates between 50-60KB/sec average. I thought about all kinds of ways to measure the upload but the limitations of iCab make it such that it's just good enough to load the page, but can't do any "advanced" stuff like uploading to the web.
Practically, it's a wee bit faster than 56K was, but not by much. Then there's the problem of decompressing all the archives, which on these machines (especially LCs with their crippled status) is slow.
Boot disks can be created in mini vMac or BII. Mini vMac has an neat speed control feature which can speed up boring operations like rebuilding the desktop to an unthinkable speed compared to a old Mac. The only time that a genuine old Mac is a necessity is creating 400K MFS disk images.