Ethan | June 30, 2022

It's arrived!

It's better than I was expecting and after taking the case off and looking at this gen 4 I'm very pleased with the build quality. Shipping has taken over a month (Canada to U.K) but it has been well worth the wait. The instructions are all in english not programmer, so that's a plus! And they're easy to understand, it's easy to read and all relevant and important information is on this sheet.
I'll be testing it tomorrow as I don't have a DB9 male to male adapter, woops!

Response from The Old Net | Aug. 2, 2022

Thanks for the great review! If you want to tell me your particular use case for a male to male adapter I can see about stocking them in my store. I want things to work out of the box for as many people as possible.

David | April 27, 2022

Help I'm stuck

I have a Packard Bell 386SX running DOS 5.0 that I restored. Installed Telix for DOS. Can't get the modem to work. Forgive my ignorance. What model modem does this device emulate (Telix program requires this for initial configuration)? When I try to connect, the terminal display fills with a continuous string of random characters.

Response from The Old Net | April 27, 2022

Hi if you reach out to me for support with your order number that might be better for going back and forth troubles shooting. You can also hop on the discord server for help here: https://discord.gg/5xE6NEGkNK

If you are getting random characters on the screen only then you probably have a rate mismatch. Set your terminal to 300 bps, 8 bits, no parity, 1 stop, no flow.

I use Telix too and you shouldn't need to specify an exact modem brand but choosing a generic Hayes modem should work.

A video of your troubles might be helpful too.

Also make sure you have the right COM port selected in telix. You might accidentally have it set to a serial mouse perhaps.

Michael | April 18, 2022

Paul | Feb. 13, 2022

Steven | Oct. 10, 2021

Rs232 serial Wifi Modem

Great modem for vintage computers and works well although the case needs work would love to buy one more but
took my home wifi a reset before it was able to logon but it stayed connected once my home wifi was reset.

Response from The Old Net | Dec. 4, 2021

Hi thanks for the feedback. Could you give me more information on what your issue is with the case? I would like to know so I can try an make things better.

It may not be perfect but believe me a lot of time and effort has been placed into the design of the case. I've gone through at least 20-30 revisions of the design. Of those iterations this is the 4th version of the case that I've been selling.

Tegan | Oct. 9, 2021

Frederik | Oct. 1, 2021

Matthew | Aug. 31, 2021

Love this serial modem!!

This device helped me connect an HP 200LX to the internet from DOS 5.0. It would be great if it could be made to act as a wifi adapater as well, so that we could do some web browsing as well. Still being able to connect to BBS'es is great! I highly recommend this for anyone looking to do anything I've described here!

Response from The Old Net | Sept. 29, 2021

I want a 200 LX very much. I have a 360LX which is Window CE, but I would rather have the earlier DOS capable system.

I would love to see a video of your system with this modem in action!

Christopher | Aug. 16, 2021

AWESOME!

Using with a Macintosh LCII to get back into BBSing like it was the 90's. The only tricky part was finding an old school Mac serial modem cable, then I needed a DB9 to DB25 adaptor. It all worked out though. Found both as New old stock on Ebay. Using Zterm set to 9600 8N1 seems to be the best for this particular machine.

Response from The Old Net | Aug. 16, 2021

Thanks for the review! I've been hearing from a lot of people their desire for Mac connectivity (mini-DIN 8) as well as DB25 adapters.

Rest assured I plan to offer multiple adapters as addon options and I will be offering them at a reasonable price!

I have been testing out a couple different styles of adapter and seeing which suppliers can give me a decent price. Ordering a box of cables is surprisingly expensive on shipping. It's a lot of bulk and weight.

For everyone else looking for these options stay tuned, I'll likely have something in the coming weeks depending on shipping time.

Jon | May 17, 2021

My Macintosh SE/30 is online!

I connected this to my Macintosh SE/30 and have been able to both connect to BBSes over telnet and to a local PPP server to set up a full TCP/IP stack.

Response from The Old Net | June 2, 2021

I'd love to see a video tutorial for that, I have an SE/30 too! I haven't set it up for PPP with this modem yet. Was it easy?

Pavel | March 17, 2021

Dean | March 12, 2021

Eddie | March 11, 2021

Jeroen | March 10, 2021

Garrett | Feb. 22, 2021

Chris | Dec. 4, 2020

Sergei | July 5, 2020