[P1] internet speed?

[Jack Rodgers]

On Tuesday, May 6, 2003, at 11:36  AM, Fran Dollinger wrote:

> I have microwave high speed at 512K (supposedly) coming through a 
> cable modem. The 7300 is upgraded to G3/400 1MB backside cache/ 4gig 
> Seagate HD/ 256K RAM/ 2MB vram running OS 9.2.2/ Netscape 7.02. I'm 
> using the built-in Ethernet. The iBook is the 600MHz 512K L2/ 20gig 
> HD/ 256K RAM/ 16MB video?/running at the time of testing... OS 10.2.5/ 
> Netscape 7.02. That's all the specifics I can come up with at the 
> moment....I'll go look for the TCP/IP settings and hook up the 7300 to 
> check it's settings as well....

I have a sneaky feeling that the difference in speed is due mainly to 
using OS X on one computer and OS 9 on the other. Netscape may not be 
the fastest browser...

What tests are you running to determine the speed difference. One 
method is to locate a large file on Version Tracker and time how long 
it takes to download.

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