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To: Zeddie88 who wrote (5769)9/16/1999 11:28:00 PM
From: RJL  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 110653
 
Adding more RAM never hurts, but if you have 128Mg, you should be doing ok. RAM prices have gone through the roof recently, so you're probably better off waiting a bit anyway.

Upgrading your video card to 16Mg normally requires a completely new card, unless the one you has as a spot for a memory module on it (Matrox and ATI have some cards like that). Besides, unless you're running very high resolutions at a solid refresh rate, going to 16Mg or 32Mg is pointless...unless you're into games. A good 8Mg card should do you very well.

That said, none of those two things should have any effect on the download of data. What program are you running? Do you have anything else going at the same time, and last but not least, what type of connection are you running? 56k dialup, ISDN, cable, or ADSL?

Cheers,

Rich



To: Zeddie88 who wrote (5769)9/17/1999 8:02:00 AM
From: wily  Respond to of 110653
 
Here's a tool for monitoring your download rates (It works great!):

download.com

Here's a place to get a quick test of your line speed (seems to be pretty accurate, but you should use it a lot before you draw serious conclusions):

computingcentral.com

It's hard to say how much data in Kbits/sec you are drawing from your three sources but they are probably overloading your bandwidth when you are getting the lag. Should be pretty easy to check with NetMedic.

w


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