On Mar 17, 2005, at 7:37 AM, Eagle wrote:
On Mar 16, 2005, at 23:00, Bruce Johnson wrote:On Mar 16, 2005, at 8:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I have a 5500G3 and Beige G3 both connected to a wireless network via
ethernet. They tell me I should get 1 gb or more transfers. Opening pages does not
seem very fast ----- would I see any difference in page opeing if I get a newer
Mac? OS 9.1, 300 and 366 mHz.
No no way should you get 1gb or more; the ethernet in them is 10 Mb/s. Moreover the speed of opening pages is dependent on the speed of your Internet connection. If they're going through a wireless, that's not going to be very fast.
A newer system will get you improved general performance, but not necessarily faster web browsing.
That's very true, but even with wireless, the "weak link" in the chain isn't the wireless, it's still the Internet connection, for wireless is faster than even broadband.
It is not often that I disagree with Bruce, but...
While a faster Mac will not get you faster downloads, it WILL render pages faster. Using the speed tests at dslreports.com, I got the same up and download speeds on both my beige G4 533 as I got on a Digital Audio 933. This was using a a dLink 802.11b wireless network and I got the same speed with a pc directly wired to the router, so I know the wireless network was not the bottleneck. The best I've ever tested was 2.5Mb download and 700Kb up.
However, the pages rendered on my screen much faster so it APPEARED that my surfing had sped up. This is particularly noticeable on complex or large pages, like the pgatour.com stats pages where there are over 200 golfers listed, most with hyperlinks to other pages.
Since I eliminated the network from the equation, it must be the Mac that makes the difference. Whether it is the Graphics card (GeForce2 MX vs the Radeon 7000- most likely answer) or the processor I am not in the position to test.
HTH, Len
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