[G4] Networking

[John Niven]

Ha!

I have one AGP G4 350MHz at home on cable, and one at
work on the company LAN. Both running Tiger, and
Microsoft Office, and browsing no problem. The one at
work seems to browse faster (my home cable seems
slower). This indicates that the speed of the incoming
data is the problem, not CPU power.

I do not think the best way to extract maximum dollar
value is always CPU speed. Both my machines have 1Gb
of RAM and run their OS from U160 SCSI drives. These
are driven by ATTO UL3D PCI cards. They are 64bit
cards using the full width of the 33MHz bus. If you
are still using the clunky old original ATA33
interface then you should remember that the hard drive
is slowest piece in your Mac!

I also did modest video card upgrades so I can run
Quartz extreme.

Upgradng the CPU does nothing for the slow system bus.
Depends on what you do with your machine. It's a
complicated game.

Cheers,
            John 
 
--- SKYGRAM <skygram at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Guys!
> 
> I too have been using a 400MHz Gigabit Ethernet G4
> on the Internet at
> extreme high Internet speeds with no problems. It is
> still a great
> machine. Only with the newer graphics programs does
> it show it's age.
> 
> The other advantage with these older G4 towers is
> their
> upgradeability. Is that last one an actual word?
> 
> I intend to upgrade the CPU soon with a 1ghz
> processor. It should give
> me a few more years of good use. That should cost me
> a couple of
> hundred bucks and I have already installed a USB2
> card for about
> $30.00.
> 
> However I am worried that Leopard won't work on it
> when it is released
> in the Spring...
> 
> Bill
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