FYI, NIC speed does not come into play for home and business PC users. Since they are all now 10/100mb /sec, even the 10mb slow end is several times faster than any of us could achieve. The fastest LAN ISP broadband connection I've ever seen is only 6mb/sec. Most people's are roughly 3mb/sec and less. The exception are those fortunate very few that are on Gb/sec lines (1000mb) and need Gigabit+ NIC's. -Clint
Happy Holidays to all & God Bless Clint Hamilton, Owner Want to exchange links with us? http://OrpheusComputing.com � ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ann, Actually, your "friend" (how I HATE individuals who give you answers like this without anything else to go with it) is totally right and totally wrong, since the subject is NOT just about one item which determines speed in any computer system. Where this person is correct is with the issue of dial-up versus broadband - naturally broadband, whether cable or DSL, is going to be faster than dial-up, whatever computer you are hooked up to. The same idea as electrical power to your home, business, or similar - larger lines allow more power capability than smaller lines to a place. BUT the issue is capability in both situations. HOWEVER, if your home is equiped with the latest and greatest appliances and similar, with power saving and similar, they sure are going to be more effiecent and useful for you than some stuff that is decades old - and generally less costly to run. With computers, it is the processor speed, size of cache, ram available as well as speed, hard drive space and speed, video card (for viewing on-line sites, ethernet card speed, and similar hardware. BUT another factor would also be how good/bad are the drivers for communicating from windows to the devices, as well as most effiecently using the equipment on your system. So the person you were talking to was totally wrong on the issue when you look at your more current system versus the older one you gave away, especially if you are talking downloads of files, viewing movies or listening to music on-line (skips versus no skips), and other similar factors. So TO the system would be totally same - AT and IN the system would be totally different. Ralph annparker wrote: > > 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 =====================================================
