At 20:40 26/02/99 -0800, John Lombardo wrote:
>Good question. You have to look at what you're asking your STN box to do.
>Is it minding a 28.8 modem connection to the Internet? If so, then a 386/25
>will be good enough -- you could probably use a digital watch. If you're
>connected via a fast 300k/s cable modem, you probably want a faster
>processor -- but how fast? I've heard of customers using a 486/66 and being
>amazed that they see no slowdown.
>
>More than 8 megs will help if you've got a lot of computers running through
>the STN machine and they're all active. But I believe more than 16 megs is
>probably wasted.
>
>The only place that a very fast processor will help is Internet gaming.
>Every hop along the wire costs lag time. The slower the computer, the more
>the lag time. But you're not talking about much, probably only a few
>milliseconds max.
Damn, there goes my 128 MB :(
Grtnx
LK
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