The Wodem: Serial WiFi Modem For The Amiga Review

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7 ай бұрын

This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast ‪@10MARC‬ I am reviewing a neat new Serial Port WiFi modem! The "Wodem" - THis little beauty is sold by Alinea computers and works on most Amigas with at least a 68020 CPU - join me as I walk through setup and configuration and then we test it out with some real world applications.
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@LetztesDeutschesFernsehen 2 ай бұрын

This Video is awesome! Got my Wodem up and running with it. Thank you so much!!

@10MARC 2 ай бұрын

It is certainly a clever device. Glad you got yours working.

@ToddsNerdCave 7 ай бұрын

looks like a great little serial wifi modem solution!

@10MARC 7 ай бұрын

It's neat for sure. There are several out there that emulate modems, but having one use a real TCPIP stack is quite useful.

@carbonara2144 7 ай бұрын

100% correct about Xsurf. I have one in my A3000 and its awesome.

@10MARC 7 ай бұрын

It is surprisingly fast. A very well designed product! I have a RapidRoad USB attached to mine. Nice combination

@andreaslizart7984 7 ай бұрын

@@10MARC Got both devices XSurf and RR - great stuff - really fast :)

@Krushernl 7 ай бұрын

I remember hooking up my Amiga's via my pc Proxy which basically acted as a 115Kbs modem to the serial port. SLIP was a bitca to setup. But hey it was all we had

@10MARC 7 ай бұрын

Oh for sure! Luckily this SLIP does not require much configuring. It was a pain back in the day, though

@Krushernl 7 ай бұрын

@@10MARC I had a Wyse Terminal connected to one of my Amiga's even. That I do miss though. Nice Amber CRT screen.

@alanhaynes4576 7 ай бұрын

Doug, Great video and it makes me wonder how it would go with the Multiface 3 Card that is available for big box Amigas and I have one? This has a UART and according to the Amiga Database it is capable of the full 115,200 baud. I also have an 040 card by GVP. Very interesting possibilities, I may have to get me one. Thanks Doug, and I am also interested in iBrowse 3. I see it was released on the 19th of November, awesome. A review of Ibrowse on a faster connection with more colours would be great to see. Any chance of that in the not-too-distant future? Merry Christmas any way Doug, to you and your Family

@10MARC 7 ай бұрын

Yep - it should work fine with a different serial card. The change would be made in installation script with the new serial device name being put there. It should work great at 115,200 in that case. And Merry Christmas to you too!

@LeftoverBeefcake 7 ай бұрын

I'm using a 3Com PCMCIA card (wired Ethernet) on the A1200 with Roadshow and it's working splendidly. This Wodem certainly seems like it's for someone who wants convenience rather than speed, but I don't want to knock it since it works, and the more connectivity options we have, the better!

@10MARC 7 ай бұрын

I went back to my Amiga 1200 with my PCMCIA network card and downloaded the same game I did in this video. Maybe 6 or 7 seconds instead of like two minutes. It is certainly better than no Internet!

@thomasclausbz 7 ай бұрын

I use the Wodem daily. Aminet, WHDload Downloads, Games, Demos and some Amiga Forums. It is not fast, 10kb/second but more enough for my needs. The thing is, i don´t need a cable like plibox and don´t have a PCMCIA Card. I need the space (a drawing tablet is on this side on my desk). I also have connected it to my Synology NAS and can load and save my Deluxe Paint graphics and use it on my PC or AmigaOne X1000. It is not the fastest bud i also don´t need more ;) 2MB Game is downloaded fast enough, i also downloaded bigger things like iBrowse, it works for me.

@phantominterrogative 7 ай бұрын

Pretty cool device. Not that I would ever try this, but I would assume an A1000 with an 020 accelerator would need a serial m-f convertor, right?

@LeftoverBeefcake 7 ай бұрын

Yep, the A1000's serial port is female and the opposite of the rest of the Amiga line, and you'll need a converter.

@10MARC 7 ай бұрын

Yes, but a special one for the Amiga 1000. It requires more than just gender changing due to some other differences. Or maybe that's just the Parallel Port .

@Lucretia9000 7 ай бұрын

Just did a search of Oliver Wagner, had not heard that name in years. Seems he passed away in 2016.

@10MARC 7 ай бұрын

Why am I drawing a blank on Oliver Wagner? I don't recall who that is

@Loreador77 25 күн бұрын

Hi Doug :) Thank you for this Video :) I have an Amiga 1200, but no CF Card Pcmcia Reader for it :( Where can i find your .adf Files ? Thank you Sir :)

@Himegw 7 ай бұрын

Hi Doug. Can i use this in cd32 and its aux port woth 030 cpu? That would be cool

@10MARC 7 ай бұрын

It would be useless unless you had a serial port on the CD32. I think maybe the old SX1 or SX2 expansion boards had a serial port.

@Himegw 7 ай бұрын

@@10MARC Thats the thing. Tf330 doesnt have serial or parallalel ports. Aux is the only one.

@10MARC 7 ай бұрын

@@Himegwyep. And that is just a keyboard port

@andreaslizart7984 7 ай бұрын

@@10MARC AFAIK you can use it also as a serial port with the right cable, there were also modem solutions for cd32 aux port, i mean back in the days. but nowadays hard to get.

@mharkonnen 7 ай бұрын

Trying this on a pistorm, caffieneOS 26 - i followed the instructions and got it connected to the amiga 500 tcp stack sucessfully, but once i try telnet i have hit a brick wall. occasionally it will connect but i have no access to the CMD and its not truely connected as it is only transmitting not even 30 bytes of data to the wodem device. So basically i cannot write the Wi-fi connection info to the wodem. Don't believe i have missed or messed up any of steps. any ideas ?

@10MARC 7 ай бұрын

You are using the graphics front end for Telnet? Have you turned on local echo? Maybe your serial settings are misconfigured? I have never used Caffeine. Does it use a different serial driver? It only needs to be connected via Telnet one time, do you have a different Amiga to set it up on, or maybe another CF card with a standard version of Amiga OS to set it up with?

@strahinjabojovic9910 5 ай бұрын

@@10MARC Iam having same problem on my pistorm amiga 2000 :( I followed instructions for serial configuration

@strahinjabojovic9910 5 ай бұрын

Iam tryuing to configure wodem on my PiStomed Amiga 2000 for two months with no luck! But, now I saw that blue led on wodem blinks all the time! Could that be a problem? I think it should not blink.

@10MARC 4 ай бұрын

Probably not. The little Arduino in there may have lost it's programming.

@strahinjabojovic9910 4 ай бұрын

@@10MARC Yes, ESP didnt work well, so Alinea sent me another one and its working now, but I didnt succeed to setup wodem on pistorm. Sometimes my browser loads google page but in most cases it doesnt. :(

@dannylgriffin 7 ай бұрын

Are there any old-fashioned Amiga BBSes still around?

@10MARC 7 ай бұрын

Absolutely. There are a ton of BBS's still in service, most available via telnet but some still have phone lines. My favorites are Particles, which is a C64 based BBS but has an active Amiga area. Check out telnetbbsguide(dot)com

@MsHAMRADIO 6 ай бұрын

Hello, what firmware are you using in the ESP8266 itself ?

@10MARC 6 ай бұрын

Ermmm.. uh... No clue! I bought mine from Alinea, and I assume they use the latest.

@MsHAMRADIO 5 ай бұрын

@@10MARC Hello, I made such a device and I want to put it on eBay, can I provide a link to this video as instructions ?

@Ratnaic 7 ай бұрын

Yeaaa !!!! Thanks, I connect my A3000 on Internet with this WoDem I have a AriadneII card but I can't connect, I don't know why, it don't see by my box (LiveBox Orange. Yes French here) when I connect the RJ45 cable between them.

@10MARC 6 ай бұрын

Hmm... Do you have a router or switch you can connect it to? Also, which TCP/IP stack are you using? A lot have issues with DHCP and require a static IP setting.

@cbmeeks 6 ай бұрын

Some of us didn’t appreciate what you said about The 8-Bit Guy. Unsubscribed.

@10MARC 6 ай бұрын

OK. But just tell me I was incorrect with what I said. Did he do what I said? Did I insult him, or did I say that I was not interested in having that kind of stuff in my life? I can send you the pics and information if you are interested.

@cbmeeks 6 ай бұрын

@@10MARCI know the exact video you are referring to. No need to send me anything.