MONITORS I Am Puzzled
I have been given an 11 inch laptop to replace a 15. 6 inch laptop. The screen even on the 15 inch laptop was too small for my bad eyesight. It's going to be worse with the 11 inch screen. I need a...
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MrWizard wrote:
Cpu speed has little to do with internet page loading
It's more about display graphics processor chip
And using add blocking with your browser
Hard drive banging away when fetching a web page is to much cr*p being saved on the drive..cookies etc...from every dang server all the extraneous cr*p is coming from
^^^ THIS is pretty much the answer.
First and foremost it is actually your INTERNET CONNECTION and the EXTRA AD GARBAGE which is being dragged along with what you really want to see that causes very slow web pages..
For instance, the PC I am typing on right now is a Intel P4 at 2.8 ghz with Hyper threading.. I am running XP with 2 gig of ram.. My wired ISP connection is a T1 equivalent but my PC only has a 10/100 nic card.
My work PC is a Dual core at 2.2 ghz, 4 gig of ram running Win7 and while the IT department has faster than T1 connection the PC only has 10/100 nic connection..
My HOME PC loads Internet pages with the SAME speed as my work PC..
To keep that comparison as fair as possible I am using Firefox with Adblock Plus on BOTH PCs..
Before my P4 at home I was running a P3 at 733 mhz with 1 gig of ram and Win98.. Never even noticed any difference in internet speed when I moved to the P4 system.
The only place where I noticed a speed difference was when dealing with pictures and video that was ON the hard drive or opening some software.
If you are accessing the Internet via "wireless" then the "wireless" is is often your bottleneck.. WifFi connections automatically will negotiate on the fly the connection speed as you use it.. So if you have a weak signal it will DROP the speed until the wireless card gets enough good data packets.. A 54mb wireless card can drop down to 1-2 MB as the signal strength varies..
Ideally when working from wireless you NEED to block as much as possible unwanted "ads".. Those things chew up your bandwidth and have higher "priority" over the other webpage "data".. This means the "ads" load FIRST, then non ads load LAST.. The result is you WAIT a long time before you get to see your webpage.
