> On Sep 1, 2015, at 8:04 PM, smac0031 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You guys have been telling me that DA G4 is probably the slowest thing on my > network. I looked up the specs and the ethernet port is 10T, 100T, 1000T. I > am pretty sure that means gigabyte.
The slowness of your G4 has nothing to do with the ethernet speed; rather it’s the rest of the system that is likely slowing the computer down. Yes, it has gigabit ethernet. It also has 133MHz RAM versus modern Ram which operates at nearly 10x the speed; a CPU that has one core, versus 2 or 4 in modern CPU’s (and this discounts hyper threading which lets the CPU behave as though it has twice as many cores), CPU’s that themselves are running 2-3X faster than the G4. The hard drive is also slower at transferring data to the system, even if it is a 7200RPM drive, because the IO bus runs at 133 MHz. Network throughput can be measured, but ‘how slowly XYZ web page loads' is not one of the metrics; this is dependent on the entire computer, not just how fast the bits come through the pipe. It’s unlikely (especially if you’re not seeing this kind of slowness with other systems on the same network) that it’s just the network. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
