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On Fri, 17 Apr 1998 10:37:59 +0100, Dave Santorum, or someone
pretending to be Dave Santorum wrote these words:

>In article <6d56a83748%glenn@squirrel-net.demon.co.uk>, Glenn Richards
><URL:mailto:glenn@squirrel-net.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> In message <353122a8.41107183@news.demon.co.uk>
>>           paul@nospam.zero-g.demon.co.uk (Paul) wrote:
>> 
[deletia}
>> 
>> Right, you might actually find that the serial port on an A3010 is a bit on
>> the lame side for Internet usage.
>
>hmmm, downloading seems fine, rendering of web pages is another matter...
>News/mail etc are OK and *seemed* to be the same at 19200 on the A3010
>as at 57600 on a PC 486/75 laptop. Using a proxy for browsing obviously 
>improves matters there too.

I guess it all depends on what speed your ISP will go up to.
This isn't intended to start a "which hardware is best" argument, but
clearly 57.6 is 3 times faster than 19.2. Assuming the PC had a 16550
UART, then no bottle neck would exist. The thing that was probably
making it seem equivalent to a 19.2 d/l was the software - no doubt
Wintendo95 and MSIE4 were giving the PC a hernia ;-)

>But, you will need at least 4Mb for most stuff.

<gulp> I've just spent �60+VAT on an IDE card! You mean I've got to
spend *more* money?
<sigh> I guess I'll just have to sell one of my kids for medical
research ;-)

Paul

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