[P1] internet speed?

[Kathe Wittenberg]

Netscape loading is like watching paint dry... tedious and slow. I 
switched to Camino on my iBook (OS 10 only, though) and it is way 
faster then Netscape or IE. I'm using cable internet connected via 
Airport card to a wireless router/hub.

Kathe
Royal Oak, MI

On Tuesday, May 6, 2003, at 12:20 PM, Jack Rodgers 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.