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Posted by Ken' on May 5, 2005, 11:02 pm
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Hi
Does your processor speed have any bearing on your download speed?
Thanks
Ken'
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Posted by $Bill on May 5, 2005, 9:09 pm
Ken' wrote:
> Hi
> Does your processor speed have any bearing on your download speed?
Depends on what you have for a processor. Once you have more power
than it takes to handle the max bandwidth, it makes little difference
how much extra you have, it's not going to be the limiting factor
anymore. Today's CPUs can easily handle the max speed of your internet
connection - your limitaion is your com link.
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Posted by Warren on May 5, 2005, 9:37 pm
$Bill wrote:
> Ken' wrote:
>> Does your processor speed have any bearing on your download speed?
>
> Depends on what you have for a processor. Once you have more power
> than it takes to handle the max bandwidth, it makes little difference
> how much extra you have, it's not going to be the limiting factor
> anymore. Today's CPUs can easily handle the max speed of your internet
> connection - your limitaion is your com link.
>
I would mostly agree, however there are a couple of other issues that could
affect your apparent download speed. These would each be generally extreme
issues, should not occur on a machine given even the most cursory attention,
and are generally easy to resolve, but they can happen.
If your hard drive is both fragmented and loaded to the hilt, files you
download may not be written to the disk as quickly as they could be
downloaded. If you've got a ton of background operations running (as in
double-digits), it is possible for there not to be enough processor power to
move the data around. If those background operations are using the Internet
connection, well, you may be getting the speed, but it may be going to
operations other than what you expect. Similarly, if you're using a USB
connection, if you're printing to your USB printer, and pulling pictures off
your camera or scanner at the same time, your Internet download speed will
suffer.
In other words, after a round of (what should be routine) maintenance, and
some common sense in what you expect in the line of multitasking, even an
old Pentium 133 is more than fast enough to not affect download speed. It's
certainly possible to create a situation where even the newest, fastest CPU
becomes the bottleneck, but I'd suggest that it's not the processor speed
that's the problem. The user would be the problem causing the bottleneck.
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Posted by Bob Haar on May 6, 2005, 10:30 am
> Does your processor speed have any bearing on your download speed?
The quick answer is that it can but there are too many other variables to
say.
If you have any reasonably recent computer and don't have additional
software overhead (software firewall, virus scanning, VPN, etc.) then you
are unlikely to hit limits imposed by the CPU. If you do have significant
software the is involved, then you may easily be at a point where a faster
CPU would help.
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Posted by Ed Wurster on May 6, 2005, 11:05 am
Ken' wrote:
> Hi
> Does your processor speed have any bearing on your download speed?
Yes it does.
Also look at the total system. You can't overcome certain limitations with a
faster processor.
If you have a PII, then you probably have an older bus, slower drive, not
enough disk space. RAM is tight, the O/S has been patched a thousand times.
If you have a PIII, then you can fix some of the limitations by upgrading.
But it makes no sense when you look at the cost of new system.
Ed
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