[P1] internet speed?

[Fran Dollinger]

Thanks Kathe! I downloaded Camino and gave it a run with:
http://promos.mcafee.com/speedometer/test_0150.asp
and it did bump up the speed from an average 600/700KB speeds up to an 
average of 850KB. So, that's better than a poke in the eye ;-) Still 
not 1MB and above like my 7300 but still better than that poke!

Fran in AZ

On Tuesday, May 6, 2003, at 10:10 AM, Kathe Wittenberg wrote:

> 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.