To a point, yes. More accurately it's ISP connection type than "server". As for as surfing (internet speed), >GENERALLY< the most importing thing first is connection (DSL/cable/T1, etc) is going to be faster than dialup regardless*. Next is using IE6 (I've always noticed IE is MUCH faster than NS...and oddly enough; NS7 is slower as least on these PC's than NS4.x!) Next comes your CPU setup. Reasons is due to the small file sizes that are usually involved and transferred while browsing, most pages being roughly ~30k in size. If you are browsing some HUGE pages (several hundred K in size each), then of course this order may change some and give more of a precedence for CPU/PC speed over browser type.
I personally noticed a marked speed increase while on the net when going from a PII to PIII, then going from a PIII to P4. This is not just due to the CPU speed increase, but to the larger amounts of cache, and/or FULL speed L2 cache as compared to half-speed L2 in the case of the PII. However, the increase in speed was not nearly as much as going from dialup to DSL/cable. *Exception would be when you are using a cable connection during peak hours. In my experience I can speak for this first hand. It CAN slow down to that slower than a dialup! That's why I like DSL better. "Your results may vary....." ;-) -Clint Happy Holidays to all & God Bless Clint Hamilton, Owner Want to exchange links with us? http://OrpheusComputing.com � ----- Original Message ----- From: "annparker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reading Liz's email below made me think of something that happened at our local duplicate bridge center the other day. I mentioned to a man who came to my table to play that just a few months ago I had purchased a new HP Pavilion 7975 with 512 Megs RAM, Pentium 4, 80 Gigs hard drive, Windows XP Home Edition, 8 kilobyte primary memory cache, 256 kilobyte secondary memory cache, and then I changed from just a regulal local server to Adelphia Cable . I told him that the speed difference is spectacular. The man is about my age (77) and, though retired, claims to be a computer whiz! His comment to me was that my computer had nothing to do with speed, that my SERVER was the only thing that affected my speed. I had a perfectly good 3-yr old HP computer, which I gave to my grandson, with just about all the qualities Liz mentions about hers. I said to the man, "Then for more speed, all I needed to do was keep my old computer and change to Cable and my speed would be just as fast as it is now on my new computer." His answer was a decided "Yes." Now, all you gurus who have helped me in the past, please tell me if my "friend" was correct!!!!!! (Gee, I'd love to go back to that smart aleck with a printed answer from you saying he is wrong! I know this is not a Christian attitude, but he was so condescending when he was talking to me! LOL) Thanks, Ann Parker ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
