[P1] internet speed?

[Fran Dollinger]

I went back and tried the speed test again on both computers and still 
came up with approx. the same results...this file size is the same no 
matter what and the internet, yes, I know what you're saying there but 
it seems as though I would get different readings at differing times of 
day but it's still holding that 1/2 of the speed of the 7300. I take it 
that the difference in pro

Fran
cessor speed of 200MB is not enough to overcome the 512K L2 ??
On Monday, May 5, 2003, at 10:07 AM, Joe Jones wrote:

> 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:
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