cant see a difference
- Thread starter jp198780
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It depends on what you are running as well as a few other things like how well th system is maintained. If your hard drive is near capacity your system will slow right down regardless of how fast the cpu is. Certain programs with only run at a fixed rate. For browsing and other things you should see a difference again depending pc health.
thealmightyone
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Ha. To see a difference there, you'll need a new Internet package.
jp198780
New Member
what do you mean?
i think he means faster internet connection.
If you go from a dialup connection to dsl you'll know fast what that is. And when going from dsl to cable vroooooom.... ggggone! Cable is the fastest before getting into a T1 line. How much traffic is on the ISP's servers will see a big difference at times when everything slows to a crawl even with dsl or cable.
My DSL is faster than cable in my city.
I'm not surprised to hear that since more and more cable services are offering budget packages with internet capability added in. You are probably seeing a heavy usage on their servers there. On a quiet cable setup you generally see everything going faster. It's a faster data stream to begin with. I'm sure you wouldn't want to go with dialup at this point.
pyvnetrvne.
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I hope you're not saying that a T1 line is faster than the average cable connection.
jp198780
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yeahh, i know that, but shouldnt i still see the pages loadng faster or w.e?
gamerman4
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the only way you will see a performance difference to anything related to the internet is to get a faster internet connection, browsers dont use much resources at all (firefox is a bit of a memory hog but cpu use is still small) most browsers can run just fine on slow comps, I have seen plenty of old P2s and P3s run firefox without a problem. To see the performance difference between two CPUs nowadays you have to do more than surf the net. Try encoding video or playing games.
Current CPUs are so fast now that mediocre things are as fast as they are gonna get. Old computers used to take a few seconds to open folders or even the start menu, its instant now. If you got a faster CPU hoping to browse the internet faster then the only thing I can think of a CPU as helping is online flash games which use more cpu power than normal browsing.
Current CPUs are so fast now that mediocre things are as fast as they are gonna get. Old computers used to take a few seconds to open folders or even the start menu, its instant now. If you got a faster CPU hoping to browse the internet faster then the only thing I can think of a CPU as helping is online flash games which use more cpu power than normal browsing.
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palmmann
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whay you're paying for with t3 is a guarenteed connection, and the upload(mainly upload)
while my cable has the awesome download of over 6 megs, it's upload is 1/3 a meg. i would prefer t1 to my connection just for that 1 1/2 meg upload.
