I've been planning on getting a Dreamcast for a few weeks, primarily to do some old-school online play, and I have to say, this article is great! Found a Netopia R2020 on eBay for $25 plus shipping so I went ahead and bought it even though I don't have a DC yet. There's still two left at the time of this posting here:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/330643155188?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649I do have one question, not related to the DC, but to the Saturn. From this topic I saw that you apparently CAN connect to the internet on the Saturn Netlink using this method (to email send files), but you can't use it to direct-dial other users to play games "online"? From other articles, I saw a lot of discussion about the primary reason that an Analog - Broadband conversion to play Netlink games wouldn't work was because of the latency involved, and that the Netlink wasn't made to work with much latency at all (since it was based on direct analog play). So I guess my question is, would you "theoretically" be able to Netlink connect with other people using this method if it weren't for that lag, or is it not even possible even baring that? And if so, is there any other similar method of analog - broadband (and back to analog) conversion that would theoretically work if not for the lag?