Internet Speedtest

[Steve R Jones]

I'm paying for up to 100...so can't complain.

Those numbers came from my new i5 pc......

The old P4 with XP is getting 75.48 down and 18.88 up....

Is the difference due to the new pc being able to handle the downloads faster

[fink]

Is the difference due to the new pc being able to handle the downloads faster

Is the NIC on the new PC gigabit? Is the XP just 10/100?

Also on rare occasions I've seen temp anomalous results from speedtest.net

[Steve R Jones]

OK..that's a good point.. But still, you'd thing the 10/100 would max out at 100MB/s

[photolady]

But still, you'd thing the 10/100 would max out at 100MB/s

But it usually doesn't. My laptop has a 10/100 and I'm lucky to get 76Mbps on it most days. I'm paying for 150Mbps.

[Steve R Jones]

This has come up again. I have a co-worker that works from home.

The company's ALL in One HP machine is only getting 76 megs down and her personal machine is getting 233 megs down. Since she works with our online resource hog accounting software - better download speed would really help.

I was thinking about getting a USB Ethernet adaptor (Gigabyte).

1. Do you think it would help?
2. The only Gigabyte adaptor's I've seen so far are USB 3...which I don't think her machine has. Do you think that would affect the speed?

[fink]

Max speed on usb 2.0 is around 30 megabytes/sec vs 3.0 which is around 300 so 2.0 would just be worse than it currently is. (plus real life speeds would be even slower than theoretical maximum).

[Midknyte]

USB 2.0 theoretically maxes out at 480Mbps, but that's for the entire USB bus. There is some overhead, so you'll never see those numbers in the real world. The same thing is true for Fast Ethernet, so you'll never see 100Mbps.

I highly doubt using a USB 2.0 Ethernet adapter would help. Ethernet is also CPU dependent, so that's probably part of the issue.

[Steve R Jones]

Thanks guys... I think

When I saw CPU mentioned, it dawned on me that these HP all in ones have an AMD cpu.

The co-workers is an AMD E450 which as a 1.65GHz proc.

The attached pic shows a comparison between her's and my i5 2400 with a 3.1GHz proc.

Looks like she'll probably get a new desktop.

[Train]

Definitely new computer time.
http://hwbench.com/cpus/amd-e-450-vs-intel-core-i5-2400

Read the summary.
http://www.cpu-world.com/Compare/127...5_i5-2400.html