RAM and internet surfing speed

[shouvik]

Does RAM have any effect on internet surfing speed?

I mean, will increasing RAM help in faster webpage download?

[Calum]

Not really, unless you have a really fast connection and very little RAM, or of the sites are very intensive, for example lots of flash, embedded movies and so on.
What's your connection speed?
How much RAM do you have?

[GX1_Man]

Internet connection speed is more important than any processor or RAM. A PII-400 with 128 RAM that is quicker on cable than a P4 with a gig. of RAM on dialup.

[Calum]

Indeed, but if it was a Pentium 100 with 16Mb of RAM or something, it would struggle to load Flash-heavy pages or embedded Quicktime movies, even my beast slows down a lot when confronted with that.
The connection speed remains the same and it would download it just as fast, it'd just struggle to actually display and load it.

[Harlequin]

There are several important thing to surf fine by the NET, you need the necessary amount of SDRAM, for graphics data storement, you need the necessary SGRAM in your video card, for video and image managemenet, you need the necessary good GPU, for processing those images and video, a good CPU and a good chipset...

Think, there are not only HTML pages, are there others new with XML (XHTML), with a lot of data to proccess...

be water... my friend...

[Calum]

However, that's all beside the point without a fast internet connection.
That is the single most important factor in internet surfing speed.
(Am I starting to sound like Track?  It's not the only thing that matters . . .)

[Harlequin]

The most important factor in surfing speed?...

I remember years ago when I got my super modem of 110Kb /s with my older PII 350 Mhz and 128 Mb SDRAM, with my new Windows 98..., my surfing speed was deplorable, and then there arenīt this type of actual web pages that say "loading...   wait a minute"...

But, I studied a little about protocols and net connectivity, and a good USA friend told me about the MTU,s (the sizes of the packets in a TCP/IP connection).

I surfed over the Windows registry and found it, and change it to a minor size (512 Kb)... and (like said Harry Potter), "wergardium leviossa..." from that day my surfing speed was my neighbourgsī envy...

I know the new Windows XP (Home edition and Proffesional Edition), work with big MTU, but I have a 56Mb /s wi-fi conection, for that cause I have not touched the MTU size in my OS registry.

Advice: If you donīt know how to manage the OS registry, donīt try it. Your OS can crash.

There are a lot of important factors in web surfing speed, and no one is more important than others.

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[soybean]

But, I studied a little about protocols and net connectivity, and a good USA friend told me about the MTU,s (the sizes of the packets in a TCP/IP connection).

I surfed over the Windows registry and found it, and change it to a minor size

www.dslreports.com has a neat little utility to set/change MTUs.  It's called DrTCP.  I don't know how this applies to dialup, but I've found it helpful in optimizing my DSL speed, based on recommendations for MTU values from dslreports.com after running their Tweaks Test.

DrTCP is a free download. After using it to change an MTU setting, you should restart your computer.

[Calum]

Soybean, that really is a great program.
I've used it before, and it really makes a difference to surfing speed.

[Neil]

Does RAM have any effect on internet surfing speed?

I mean, will increasing RAM help in faster webpage download?

People seem to be confusing two issues here.

Extra RAM will not increase the rate at which a webpage downloads. But more RAM can be helpful in increasing the speed at which your computer processes the webpage and display it to you. It sounds like you are asking because you are considering a computer upgrade? In that case please tell us your specs. For a simple home computer, at least 256MB should be sufficent for surfing the web.

[GX1_Man]

We have truly gone off on many tangents.  

[Calum]

Indeed we have.
Interesting discussion though, eh?

[patio]

The GPU is all that matters...everything else is irrelevant.


 

[Calum]

The GPU is all that matters...everything else is irrelevant.


 

But of course.
What else could affect every single PC-related task but the GPU?

[Harlequin]

What satisfied am I with your interest about MTU!!!....

I have seen Dr TCP and tested it. Itīs a good tool for managing the TCP/IP protocols to improve the surfing speed of each one, but use it with careful. Better is before any change, making the tweaktest of the connection in http://www.dslreports.com/tweaks

Greetings through good MTU,s

HARLEQUIN.

[Calum]

That tweaktest is a good one, I agree.
That also helped me improve my connection speed.

[Harlequin]

Iīm glad for give back the favour made me one USA friend nine years ago...

I always thought you the native english speakers have a super great advantage in computers because, almost all of the computer and software technical information is in english. All our books in spanish are practically translated copies of IT engineers books.
Many times the translations are not good, because, for example, the translation is in spanish from Chile, or Argentina, or México, and this kinds of spanish is not the same as our spanish from Spain.

I canīt difference between USA technical english books or GB technical english books or, even, australian technical english books, if the technical words are the same, the expressions, and all that...

All manners, I think my own english expressions are not the same as yours, but... think Iīm not a native english speaker.

In spite of, I must give a lot of thanks to all those USA and spanish engineers, technicians, and all the people who has spent his time in putting a piece or all his technical knowledge to the rest of the world by this big NET.

HARLEQUIN

[shouvik]

Not really, unless you have a really fast connection and very little RAM, or of the sites are very intensive, for example lots of flash, embedded movies and so on.
What's your connection speed?
How much RAM do you have?

My connection speed is 6 KB/second (I use cable LAN)
RAM is 128 MB
Pentium II 350 MHz
Win 98

People seem to be confusing two issues here.

Extra RAM will not increase the rate at which a webpage downloads. But more RAM can be helpful in increasing the speed at which your computer processes the webpage and display it to you. It sounds like you are asking because you are considering a computer upgrade? In that case please tell us your specs. For a simple home computer, at least 256MB should be sufficent for surfing the web.

Hi Neil,

Yes I was looking for an upgrade for 2 reasons:-

1) I want to create some videos

2) Getting a faster connection


Thanks Everybody for the advice.

[Calum]

I guessed you weren't a native English speaker, but you are pretty good.
I only picked up on it because of a few phrases etc, your English is a lot better than many native English speakers, believe me.
I can see where you're coming from in relation to the IT books being translated, often the translations aren't properly checked and the result isn't what it was meant to be.
Again, we're wandering from the topic . . . never mind.
Edit: That was @ Harlequin, didn't see your reply there Shouvik.

[Harlequin]

Hi, if you have a W98 OS, try to download EasyMTU in: http://www.rob.cybercomm.nl/easymtu/

I think itīs so easy to use and ideal for your 6Kb/s connection and your OS.

HARLEQUIN.

[fffreak]

One question shouvik, are you sure your connection is 6KB/s and not 6Mb/s, 6KB/s would be 48Kb/s and that would be the relative speed of a dial-up connection, as you were saying you have cable (LAN)? You would think cable tends to be faster than dial-up.

 8-)fffreak