Does slow computer make browsing slower?
I know that slow computer doesn’t affect internet speed, but does it affect the loading time of a webpage.
I have only 128 of ram, 800 mhz, pentium 3 and running windows xp Sp2. When I am browsing even yahoo takes time to load.
And I think the computer was bought 8 or 10 years ago.
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November 22nd, 2010 at 7:08 pm
Not at all. Your browser speed is never dependent on the computers processing capabilities like your hardware. Your hardware can make browser startup time and script processing faster.
November 22nd, 2010 at 7:20 pm
Yes and no. If your ram in your pc is being used by other applications, it may slow your browsing down. On the other hand, if you are only browsing and your ram is relatively empty, your computer, even tho old, should still browse the net pretty fast….that is of course if you arent using dialup. Im amazed that your pc even runs tho with xp with that little amount of ram. I’m sure that xp is using every iota of ram you have.
November 22nd, 2010 at 7:31 pm
Well, the speed of the processor and the memory that you have does matter while browsing, i personally recommend that you upgrade to atleast a pentium 4 with 512 Kb of RAM and a good 56k modem for optimum performance.
November 22nd, 2010 at 8:11 pm
You’re download speed is not dependent on your hardware. But flash animations, java script and other client side software with run slower on an older PC.
November 22nd, 2010 at 8:27 pm
Hi, It can if you have anti-virus/malware software installed.
(And you should, it is vital to prevent attacks)
Depending upon the speed of the computer running these background checks, the slower the PC the slower the page will load as it is being checked for malware.
If you have a firewall installed/turned on then this will also affect the speed of browsing.
A simple thing you can do to speed things up is to get extra memory, it very cheap these days and providing that your PC does not have obsolete memory then you will have no problems.
Good Luck.
November 22nd, 2010 at 8:31 pm
Karthik is very wrong here, loading up a page for display especially now with Flash and JavaScripts can bog down a machine like that and my laptops. And I once made a mistake in JSP development I hard coded the text and slow in loading when it was suppose to be generated and fast so I suppose this could be used as an argument too.
November 22nd, 2010 at 8:59 pm
Slow computer makes everything slower, even drinking your coffee slower, true? Since the computer is juggling operating system tasks and background processes and processing the content downloaded from browsing, it is ‘timeslicing’ the CPU and so everything gets limited cpu time slices so browsing is slower than a 3Ghz 4gb RAM PC.