dan@sprint.com response I got

[Mswezey]

Originally Posted by akayareal

Now when talking about it only depends on network speed and not processor speed is not true. Its a combination. I have a 3 mouth old Macbook Pro with a 2.53 dual core processor and a 2 1/2 yr old Gateway without a dual core processor and believe me the processor plays a huge part in download speeds and page loads. A perfect example is both of them running skype on the same network doing a video call, the Mac running Windows 7 will run with no chop in speech and very little video lag if any at all. The Gateway on the other had may have a 3-7 sec video freeze, broken record effect when something being said gets stuck on repeat for a few secs before it clears up. And they both also have 4gb of ram installed and brand new hard drives that are only weeks apart.

Processor speed as nothing to do with how fast data comes in or goes out through the network.

Now the processor does effect how it processes the data coming in and going out.

Now with that comes page load times that you are viewing on your desktop, which by todays standards any dual core should load up the page fast after it's received the data from the network. What comes in effect is how efficient your browser uses your CPU to do this. Future browsers (HTML5) are going to have the CPU and GPU working together to process pages which should further the speed in which page loads AFTER it receives all the data from the network.

you have a 2 1/2 year old gateway but you didn't state what your running on it? and you have to take in effect what quality your webcam/microphone is and what bit rate you are sending and receiving through skype.

So to say that your example was the perfect example is false.

But I'm not trying to step on your toes, start a fight, or anything. Just informing you and everyone else. just saying