Survey posted 2000-06-13 04:13 by Andy.

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Celeron 400 not overclocked because of a cheap lousy motherboard, 96MB RAM, 9.6GB HD. 56k Conexant softmodem that never connects over 31.2k because of lousy area phonelines. No DSL available, and the only cable available is $100 a month for 512kbps (no RoadRunner here). I hate where I live.

If you've ever lived in Utah or even been here, I feel sorry for you. Our phones aren't even 28.8k capable. I have to drive two hours on the highway to get to anyone who knows what DSL and RoadRunner are! In my school we have 60 p. 66 Mhz. computers all linked to a 4 gig hard drive, and just enough RAM to get it working. That goes for the teachers computers, the Keyboarding classes and the Internet business class which is a big farce if you ask me, the first four months was spent on Back, Front, the History Bar and Reload. The rest of the class, about two weeks, was on finding stuff on search engines. The only nice computer in the school is an iMac for our great multimedia and movie productions classes. I hate where I live too!

I have a 60mhz Power Macintosh and a cable internet connection. It is the slowest cable connection I have ever used. Even though download rates are usually over 50 kilobytes per second, web pages take forever to load, sometimes less than one kilobyte per second.

I have a PowerMac G4 400MHz, and it really is as fast as apple says ;-). But it only has a 56k modem. If I want to surf the 'net, I go to uni and use the huge T3 bandwidth!

If your Mac is only 60Mhz, I doubt that your internet connection is your speed problem. I do believe that the pages take forever to load because your Mac is *60Mhz*.

I'm certain that the slow speed of my machine is the reason for my slow internet connection. Downloading files from the internet to my hard disk occurs at a high speed, but web pages take very long to load, because my computer's 60MHz processor has to read through the web site HTML code, interpret it, write it to memory, and display it.

Get iCab (click Web Page). It's really fast and small.

A 60MHz "POWER" Macintosh
HAH

I have a 56K modem but after i moved it started connecting at 115.2K (almost 5 times faster than what it use to, and it really does go alot faster)

liar...
PIII 500mhz 64ram 56k modem(sucks)

Thats impossible!
You liar! :)

Thats a windows DUN bug, you really can't tell what speed you are connecting at on a 56k connection with that because it will always show the false connection, try setting the maximum port speed to 56700. I remember the first time I saw Connected at 115,200...was pretty cool until I realized what was going on. Though, the rockwell chipset in most 56k modems are designed for higher than 56k, perhaps this may have something to do with it as well.

Windows DUN is f**ked up. The speed you're seeing is the speed between your motherboard and your modem, not the speed between your modem and your ISP, as it should. There should be an init string argument to add to have it display the right speed.

Kaven

I'm using a 33600 bp modem and the connection between the mother board and modem is 115.2K bp. Not the connection to the ISP.

I have a Pentium 200 aptiva upgraded to 48 megs of ram(it had 16, lol). I connect with freewwweb! Why pay for any other dial-up access when you can get free access from freewwweb? I guess it beats the old Mac classic I have in my room, lol.

I have a P166 w/16mb ram, a 1.7GB hd and a 28.8 modem (usually a 26.4 connection). I totally agree with free internet. I use worlspy as my ISP. It doesn't have any banners and has no ads. Go to www.worlspy.com for it.

I'm going to make my Mac Classic serve the web soon. While not fast, they are functional.

I have an old Tandy that is clocked in the hertz not Mhz. It has about 64k of memory and a floppy disk drive. It has DOS and can play a game Mega Man #1. I can do more on my old 86 than on my Tandy - My Mega Man game is better too! Weren't the computers on the first shuttles really small in memory?

I do too, its a TRS-80 Model II(without the disk drive). I have a catalog that came with it, and you could buy a $799 dot matrix printer (what a deal) with it

Let's see... Nothing I use to connect to the internet is original (nor that I use to use my computer except sound and video cards, I hate them for game purposes.), so I think I'm safe using just about any of these.

I used to work as a computer technician for a local store, so I could get parts fairly cheap (sometimes even damn cheap). And I find it funny that ppl are actually buying 1Ghz chips, when you can buy a very decent computer for just what the chip itself costs. Sure the 1Ghz is fast, but who really needs to go that fast?

It took me a while to realise that having a ultra fast computer is not the best way to go, its to have as many fast computers as possible. I'm up to 4 (almost 5), which is really good for when I have the friends over to play a round of Q3, or AOE2 over my 100Mb/s network. The may not all be lightening quick but they get the job done.

1. PIII 450, w/256M, 20g HD, VD 3 3000, SB Live
2. Dual PII 300, w/320M, 20g HD, 32M Elsa Erazor III, SB Live
3. AMD K62 550 , w/256M, 13g HD & 12g HD, 32M Elsa Winner II, SB Live
4. AMD K62 500 , w/256M, 13 g HD, 16 Meg VD Banshee, SB Live
5. (Not running yet, need MB) AMD K63 450, 13g HD, 16M VB Banshee, SB Live

I also have a CDRW, DVD, TV Caputre, ect... but they aren't important enough to list. And again I say they may not be the fastest available, but they are good enough for what I need them for. And I didn't pay over $400 or anyone of them.

Now back to the topic, I run off a 56k connnection, but cable will *supposedly* become avaible within a month or so, which will make those ISO's download just a little bit faster. (Redhat 6.2 has been downloading for about 3 days)

>Sure the 1Ghz is fast, but who really needs to go that fast?

True, slower (a little) is fine. But Not if you do graphics rendering; doing that, you'll want every clock cycle you can get.

ESPECIALLY if you are working on an animated file. . . Even the 1Ghz chips can be brought to their knees if you try hard enough (or make a really long animation)