I and, presumably, a lot of other people have similar problems. Here's some things I have done:
- serial to phonenet to ethernet as you suggest. Works great for appletalk, but needs another machine to do a macip -> ethernet bridge.
- serial to another machine, and do ppp over the serial link. Works OK. Kind of annoying to setup, and of course is wired. Not that great for a portable machine.
- modem to dialup into a white UFO airport extreme. Works OK, and was less annoying to setup. It required an extra device between the modems though. And is also wired. I've looked for wireless POTS extenders that are modem friendly, but everything I've found has odd (and frequently AC) power requirements that are not easily obtained from a duo, which makes the wireless part not so helpful.
Things I've been contemplating:
- serial to BT adapter with a serial profile that can then to ppp to another BT enabled machine. Still annoying to setup, and limited range, but wireless! Depending on your smartphone/PDA/whatever capabilities, you may be able to do a ppp BT gateway in a convenient mobile setup.
- serial to wifi dongles. This is probably more limiting, but if telnet works then you should be able to use rz/sz to receive/send files. Plus, anything worth doing is doable on an 80x24 vt100 emulator anyway.
Frustratingly, all those require other machines at some level.
I also totally fail at bbcode trying to make that a formatted list.
- serial to phonenet to ethernet as you suggest. Works great for appletalk, but needs another machine to do a macip -> ethernet bridge.
- serial to another machine, and do ppp over the serial link. Works OK. Kind of annoying to setup, and of course is wired. Not that great for a portable machine.
- modem to dialup into a white UFO airport extreme. Works OK, and was less annoying to setup. It required an extra device between the modems though. And is also wired. I've looked for wireless POTS extenders that are modem friendly, but everything I've found has odd (and frequently AC) power requirements that are not easily obtained from a duo, which makes the wireless part not so helpful.
Things I've been contemplating:
- serial to BT adapter with a serial profile that can then to ppp to another BT enabled machine. Still annoying to setup, and limited range, but wireless! Depending on your smartphone/PDA/whatever capabilities, you may be able to do a ppp BT gateway in a convenient mobile setup.
- serial to wifi dongles. This is probably more limiting, but if telnet works then you should be able to use rz/sz to receive/send files. Plus, anything worth doing is doable on an 80x24 vt100 emulator anyway.
Frustratingly, all those require other machines at some level.
I also totally fail at bbcode trying to make that a formatted list.