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Internet & Networking => Web design => Topic started by: nutech on March 20, 2005, 05:49:05 PM

Title: cpu speed slowing down internet connection?
Post by: nutech on March 20, 2005, 05:49:05 PM

Does a pIII 500mhz cpu slow down a 125mbps interrnet connection?

Title: Re: cpu speed slowing down internet connection?
Post by: gussery on March 20, 2005, 05:55:05 PM

Are you sure that is not 1.25Mbps?  125Mbps is (83) T1 lines or (43) 3Mbps high speed DSL or cable connections.

But the short answer is no, the processor is significantly faster than your Internet connection.

Title: Re: cpu speed slowing down internet connection?
Post by: mark_c on April 22, 2005, 11:19:00 PM

Very interesting. So what's the connection between the processor speed and the internet connection?

Is, say I megahertz  (1 Meg cycles per second) and a I meg bits per second transfer rate, the same?

Like one cycle of the processor is equivalnent to one bit through the connection?