Christopher1
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I was wondering if anyone else had noticed that with the same hardware on two different machines excepting the processor, that the two machines can get dramatically different network speeds.
The same thing apparently applies on systems running different hardware.
I've noticed that myself, where my old Celeron Processor 2.2 GHZ computer barely gets 78kbps speeds over Wireless-G, but my fathers new Core 2 Duo Vista Machine gets 2Mbps speeds over the same network. The same thing applies to my parents older Pentium 4 machine, it only gets 400kpbs speeds, and it's directly connected to the router.
The only difference that I can see is the processor, because they are all using the same Wireless Router, same network chip, in fact everything connected to networking is the same.
I tried a little test, disabling one of the processors on my father's Core 2 Duo system temporarily, and it bore out...... the speeds on the Wireless networking dropped from 2 Mbps down to only 600kbps.
If networking is so processor limited, does it make sense to get a new network card and put it in my old machine when it apparently isn't going to get the total benefit?
The same thing apparently applies on systems running different hardware.
I've noticed that myself, where my old Celeron Processor 2.2 GHZ computer barely gets 78kbps speeds over Wireless-G, but my fathers new Core 2 Duo Vista Machine gets 2Mbps speeds over the same network. The same thing applies to my parents older Pentium 4 machine, it only gets 400kpbs speeds, and it's directly connected to the router.
The only difference that I can see is the processor, because they are all using the same Wireless Router, same network chip, in fact everything connected to networking is the same.
I tried a little test, disabling one of the processors on my father's Core 2 Duo system temporarily, and it bore out...... the speeds on the Wireless networking dropped from 2 Mbps down to only 600kbps.
If networking is so processor limited, does it make sense to get a new network card and put it in my old machine when it apparently isn't going to get the total benefit?