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Originally Posted by gTen
Yes you would..mostly if you offload CRC checksum to the CPU. And latency effects everything, you don't realize that latency make a HUGE difference for everything, even a 500mbp/sec connection could loose to a 10mbps connection with better latency..let me explain
You have a webpage with 20 images. Assuming you are single threading, if you have a latency of 100ms it would take 2 seconds + the size of the image for you to download the page.
Now in a real scenario you would be multi-threading but the result is the same. I can do the full math here but its kinda late so I'm hoping the above example is enough.
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Latency makes a huge difference in online gaming, skype, other applications that require that "no lag" experience. Loading webpages doesn't require a 10 ms latency to be the best. Hughesnet for instance?? Avg. around 700-1300ms latency
Yeah I had them for little less than a year and I could download insanely fast with a download manager that makes multiple connections or "threads". Crap, even on college campus they have us capped at 1.5 Mb but with this downloading software i can manage 5 Mb easy.
Now I'm not saying Hughesnet was the most pleasurable experience, but for the time I did have it, it was way better than dail up.
And throwing numbers around isn't gonna help your argument.
I'm sure everyone here would take a 500 Mb/s with 100 ms ping time over
10 Mb/s with a 20 ms ping time in less they are a huge gamer and don't do too much downloading.
And those NICs your talking about is for gaming enthusiasts, that's what they do is improve your ping time, they don't boost you're download speed and trust me, if they did, everyone would have them and ISP companies would be going insane with how overloaded their servers are.
But go head and quote this, do your math magic with your numbers that anyone can pull out of the sky. It's okay, I remember when I first learned to divide and multiply too, sort of exciting isn't it??
Now everyone wants the best connection possible, but you're not going to get it with choose the "right" CPU. Choose the right Internet provider and if you want that "insane" ping time, yeah go get one of those gaming NICs. Otherwise save your money, a you're regular NIC on your motherboard will do just fine.
This debate started over CPUs being related to internet speed. Which they are not. If you want faster page loads go get FireFox and install the addon FasterFox. lol