[P1] internet speed?

[Joe Jones]

Ah, right!

No, there's no way to change the L2 cache - it's soldered to the logic 
board along with the cpu.

There are probably other bottlenecks that are causing the difference 
you note in speed - the internet itself is a dynamic beast if nothing 
else. There's network traffic, your own ethernet connection, the speed 
of the drive if you're downloading a big file, the amount of ram you 
have, the direction of the wind on Tuesdays, etc.

Joe

On Monday, May 5, 2003, at 18:00 Europe/London, Fran Dollinger wrote:

> Hi Joe!
> Thanks for the reply....what I was getting at was changing the 512K L2 
> in the iBook....I just added the extra 128MB chip a few days ago to 
> bump it up...lucky me, my Mom decided to bump hers up to 640MB by 
> getting a 512MB chip so I got her spare 128 for $15 because I did the 
> work/exchange for her. She's 75 and afraid of stuff like this.
> I thought because of the extra 200MHz difference in the processors 
> that they would be about equal in internet speed but the iBook was 
> only 1/2 the speed of the upgraded 7300...a little disheartening. Does 
> it sound right to you, though?
>
> Thanks,
> Fran
>
> On Monday, May 5, 2003, at 09:53 AM, Joe Jones wrote:
>
>> joham at jo-ham.com
>
>
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