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FDP Forum / Moe's Tavern (_8^(I) / computer guru's question about download speeds and processor
allen in texas
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Can the speed of your processor affect a speed test.
Example,
I have a crappy computer on a twelve meg DSL connection
I have a good computer on a 6 meg EIA circuit.
When I check my speed to Dallas the crappy computer will show a very bouncy result that will vary between 1.5 and 9 meg. final results also vary. The CPU usage will be at or very near 100% during the test.
The good computer will show a steady needle with a final result every time of 5.2 meg. The CPU usage never gets over about 30%.
insanecooker
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If your computer is at 100% and you're not doing anything with it, I'd bet that you have a virus (or something is seriously wrong, anyway). Look at the processes to see what's using that much.
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No computer guru here, but from what I recall reading, CPU speed has far less to do with download speed than your actual ISP.
What I do know is that speed can be affected by the number of users on a hub at any one point in time. Not so much these days with the blinding speed of so many cable modems, but several years ago, you could tell when kids got home from school and went online. There was a slowdown.
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Lunacy has found meJul 9th, 2012 03:50 PM Edit Profile Print Topic Search
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Get a MAC.
allen in texas
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Shut up Mikey. :)
Disregard all the previous.
Junky computer must stay on 12 meg connection (long story) but just for grins, I put good computer on the connection and it will nail down 12.7 meg download speed every time. someday I will replace the junky computer. It's what I'm on now.
Suffice to say, it was a rescue computer. (from the junk)
This computer has very little ram and not much of a processor. It has no virus protection or anything else. It was a company network computer that I gathered up to use for myself and it does what it does. I'm on it now. Kind of an experiment. If it gets sick, oh well. I have a couple more I can mess with and I'm trying to learn with it. I do NOTHING personal on it, ie banking, credit cards etc I do all that at home on my other computer.
insanecooker
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No matter how much processor it has, it should not be at 100% idling or navigating the Internet.
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In order to run a speed test you must use the processor so it does come in to play in as far as how quickly it receives the packets in the test and how quickly it sends them back out again. Also another thing to consider is the data bus speed between the NIC (network card)and both memory and processor. So a faster machine can receive and send data than a slower speed machine. You have proven that by running 2 different PC on the same network connection.
So here is something to consider what would be the results of two different speed PCs on the same home network running the same speed test to the same location?
MikeEC
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Hee, hee.
; )
allen in texas
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The slow computer is doing fine for what I want it for. It's a goof off computer for at work. I'm just trying to learn stuff.
Now here's the real issue...
At home I've been having trouble with my wireless internet provider. A lightning strike took out their radio at the tower I get service off of. They replaced the radio but my service never came back up. I was finally able to get someone to come out and they did some stuff in my radio/antenna and got my service working. Sort of. It's very intermittent. When it was working good (at least as good as it for the service I had) I could run a consistent 1.2 meg on my speeds. Fast enough for what I do and better than nothing. Since the lightning strike and repairs, one speed test will run 1.7 meg and everything will work fine, in 20 minutes everything will stop and I can get about .06 meg. A trace route, when it's working good never shows a round trip of more than 60 ms but when its goofy, I get hops of 2500 to 3500 ms or it times out. I can ping good sometimes, sometimes not.
I can ALWAYS ping the radio at the tower so the problem is somewhere on the other side of their radio.
It's just frustrating but at least, they are listening to me and trying to do something. We'll see.
PS. my computer at home is a pretty good one. I never see much over 10% CPU usage.
allen in texas
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Hmm,
had my task manager up while I do some posting here and firefox uses about 85 to 100% of my CPU
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