Or you could run SLIP over the serial port. You would have to get this running and have it connected to a suitable host/router, but it is all possible. Anything is possible if you are determined enough If you look here there is an example of someone running a web server on a PIC!! and it connects directly to a router over a SLIP connection. If someone can do that with a PIC then it should be easy with an empeg!!

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