What kind of computer and internet(cable,dsl,T1...) do you have????

96_vqmax · Oct 14th, 2003, 02:45 AM

Well,I sit here wondering if I had the slowest computer and internet service(56k) on here?LOL!!!Well I still got the old Pentium 2 333 and 56K modem(for some of you who might have forgot what it was) LOL hahahaha.Soon will upgrade to Pentium 2 366 dual prosessor.LOL hahahaha I know it's only a hair faster,but it's FREE.Cause my bro just bought a notebook and no longer need his.

Sr2oFusIoN · Oct 14th, 2003, 04:52 AM

i got earthlink... time warner is the carrier..

3.2 megs down 384 up

sr20dem0n · Oct 14th, 2003, 11:18 AM

do the bandwidth test on www.2wire.com , see what it says
mine floats around 6800kb/s on that test

comp specs:
dual athlon mp 1900+
geforce4 ti4400
sound blaster live 5.1
1gb pc2100 ddr ram
60gb maxtor 7200rpm
80gb seagate 7200rpm
120gb maxtor 7200rpm
cdrw
dvd
running redhat linux 9 and windows xp pro
all on my school network, I think it's a couple t3's

rob'sae · Oct 14th, 2003, 12:05 PM

Connection at home: Road Runner, 3.4Mbit down, 55KByte up
Connection at work: DSL... :-( it is slow...784KB down, 128Kbit up

Laptop(what I use the most often): Dell C610 PIII 1Ghz, 1GB ram, 1 40GB Hdd, 1 20GB hdd, cd-rw, dvd-rom, running XP Pro.

Server at home: 1.3Ghz duron, 1GB ram, 310GB hdd total(spanned across 6 drives) running MS-Server 2003 Enterprise.

Desktop at home(what I play games, watch and record tv, video edit): PIII 1Ghz, 512Mb ram, 2 40GB hdd's in RAID 0+1 configuration, running XP Pro (soon to be XP Media Center 2004)

I use all of these machines on a daily basis. My home network currently runs at 100Mbit in full duplex(switched) soon to be upgraded to 1000Mbit.

96_vqmax · Oct 15th, 2003, 03:39 AM

LOL!HAHAHA!I told your mine was slow.Well I am not into computer,my bro is.I am all into car LOL.All my money was spend on my car's mods.Well I only use my computer to post on here and Maxima Org,and check my mail.Look like everyone beat me on this one,hahahaha.

**HNE** · Oct 15th, 2003, 02:38 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by sr20dem0n
do the bandwidth test on www.2wire.com , see what it says
mine floats around 6800kb/s on that test

comp specs:
dual athlon mp 1900+
geforce4 ti4400
sound blaster live 5.1
1gb pc2100 ddr ram
60gb maxtor 7200rpm
80gb seagate 7200rpm
120gb maxtor 7200rpm
cdrw
dvd
running redhat linux 9 and windows xp pro
all on my school network, I think it's a couple t3's

Wow. I stay around 1200 on that test.

LatinMax · Oct 15th, 2003, 10:44 PM

I did Bandwidth = 88695.7 Kbps on the test. Cable

I have a IBM clone (home made) dual P3 1.2 ghz, 1024 meg DDR 2200 ram, 64 meg video card, 22" flat screen moniter (not flat panel, I wish), 80 gig 10,000 rpm IBM hard drive, Sound blaster live 5.1 with powered 6" sub, dvd, dvd+ burner, all run with windows 2000 5.0.

Is that what you were looking for.

Tickwomp · Oct 17th, 2003, 04:13 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by LatinMax
I did Bandwidth = 88695.7 Kbps on the test. Cable

I have a IBM clone (home made) dual P3 1.2 ghz, 1024 meg DDR 2200 ram, 64 meg video card, 22" flat screen moniter (not flat panel, I wish), 80 gig 10,000 rpm IBM hard drive, Sound blaster live 5.1 with powered 6" sub, dvd, dvd+ burner, all run with windows 2000 5.0.

Is that what you were looking for.

VERY nice. love the 10K rpm harddrive, wish i had that on mine. not to mention the 22'' flatscreen monitor, i mean thats bigger than my TV lol.
www.dslreports.com also has speed tests that compare it to other standard connections

Bandwidth = 3148.1 Kbps on Cable

AMD XP 1800+ (soon to upgrade)
Albatron KX400 Pro
512 MB DDR 2700 ram
Geforce 4 Ti 4200 128MB SE O/C'ed
WD 120GB 7200 RPM HD
Maxtor 60 GB 7200 HD
CDRW 40X
DVD Rom (it sucks)
Chieftec Matrix Case w/ about 9 case fans counting the PSU.

hey frank, u shoudl go to fry's and get computer stuff there (that is if you use it a lot...) you can build a pretty good system for a cheap price, i use mine for a lot of gaming so i upgrade somewhat often.