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Originally posted by thehtownpoption
Just upgrade the RAM. Like what I was talking about with my parents' machine; their machine is only 200Mhz, and the RAM upgrade helped a lot. But, since we had to get like, PC 66MHz RAM we had to special order it or something. It cost a little bit more than just straight buying RAM, but in the end it made surfing at least 15 times as fast.
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My PC has 256MB RDRAM, and my "Family" Computer has 64MB SDRAM, my dad even wants to upgrade it, and it's very rare when you hear him say that, because he normally dosen't give a rat's rear about upgrades, but he really wants more RAM, OI personally think he wants it for some newer strategy games, because he's beaten AOE2 to death, and even though I gave him "Sudden Strike", he wants more RTS games, that's about all he plays RTS, and MYST-style "Point-and click" adventures.
As for me, I went to best buy today looking for a phone for my room, and wound up looking at Belkin "USB hubs", because my old Gamepad isn't WindowsME Friendly, and I found one that might work as a good replacement, but it's a USB Gamepad, and my two USB ports are in use with the Cable Modem, and my Printer/Scanner/Copier. I'll probably buy the USB Hub, and connect the printer to that, just so I have the highest speed on my modem still.
I'm Curious to try the Bandwidth test again, The first Time I did it, it was amazing, the second time it dropped alot, and I want to do it on Friday after I do my standard clean-up of ScanDisk,DeFrag,VirusScan, and reboot, which takes all day, but makes the machine much faster. Also try the test at dffernt times, you'll get differtn results even with an always on connection,. because if a lot of people are "piped" in to a cable or DSL line, it slows it down, try running the test early in the morning or late at night, and you'll get higher results, this also tells you when to avoid Downloading suff if your neighbors are tying up the line.