maddmatt02
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ok, my grandmas computer is an old hp 6623 I think. by no means a fast computer, but they only use it for free cell and email, so its fine.
but my computer at home, is a P3 733 on an asus cusl2 board, 384 mb of pc133. speedtest.net shows my bandwidth around 800-1200 mbps lately. and it loads very fast. watching videos online is no problem.
her computer is a amd K6-2 500, its an all in one board. also she only had 64mb pc100, and 8 was stolen for video.
once you finally got to speedtest.net it shows around 1300-1400 mbps. but every web page loads very slow. they have norton go back, i believe some kind of anti virus, run disk cleanup and disk defrag all the time, said 5 days ago when I was over there today.
also, when trying to watch a video from youtube or something, it is very jumpy, just like trying to watch a video directly off of a slow sd card.
today I was there and installed.2 micron PC100 128mb sticks, for a total of 256, and after video, her system info shows 248, so it does recognize it.
now I know bringing my pc from 128 to 384 made a huge difference, and i just figured that having only 56mb of ram was their problem, well. not really. double click IE and it takes probably 1-2 seconds to open, and google(home page) takes at least 4-5 seconds still???
it moves along better than dial up, so they like it still (moved from where 28.8k dial up was all they had) but I think it sucks. didnt try watchign a video, but im sure it wouldnt be any better.
and if you open a new window, be prepared to wait a few seconds before you are even able to click anything on the new window itself, like to maximize, and another couple to have the page load.
what can I check. browsing the web seems like it should be an easy thing for a computer to do. I remember a P2 450 with like 128mb of ram i built from spare parts once and I remember it being way faster thean hers.
I am getting my sisters old P4 pc at the end of the year and Im putting my mobo/cpu/hdd/etc in their case (smaller and fits their desk) but for now I just wanna make theirs better for when Im overe there.
thanks
but my computer at home, is a P3 733 on an asus cusl2 board, 384 mb of pc133. speedtest.net shows my bandwidth around 800-1200 mbps lately. and it loads very fast. watching videos online is no problem.
her computer is a amd K6-2 500, its an all in one board. also she only had 64mb pc100, and 8 was stolen for video.
once you finally got to speedtest.net it shows around 1300-1400 mbps. but every web page loads very slow. they have norton go back, i believe some kind of anti virus, run disk cleanup and disk defrag all the time, said 5 days ago when I was over there today.
also, when trying to watch a video from youtube or something, it is very jumpy, just like trying to watch a video directly off of a slow sd card.
today I was there and installed.2 micron PC100 128mb sticks, for a total of 256, and after video, her system info shows 248, so it does recognize it.
now I know bringing my pc from 128 to 384 made a huge difference, and i just figured that having only 56mb of ram was their problem, well. not really. double click IE and it takes probably 1-2 seconds to open, and google(home page) takes at least 4-5 seconds still???
it moves along better than dial up, so they like it still (moved from where 28.8k dial up was all they had) but I think it sucks. didnt try watchign a video, but im sure it wouldnt be any better.
and if you open a new window, be prepared to wait a few seconds before you are even able to click anything on the new window itself, like to maximize, and another couple to have the page load.
what can I check. browsing the web seems like it should be an easy thing for a computer to do. I remember a P2 450 with like 128mb of ram i built from spare parts once and I remember it being way faster thean hers.
I am getting my sisters old P4 pc at the end of the year and Im putting my mobo/cpu/hdd/etc in their case (smaller and fits their desk) but for now I just wanna make theirs better for when Im overe there.
thanks