A question about speeding up an older PB system ??

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Hi--

First off, Happy New Year to everyone!!
OK, so I have an older PB system, the 685 MB with a Powerleap
(and Mr. BIOS) running at 400 mhz, 2 megs of vid ram, 128 meg mem, 56 k
Aztech modem. . Is there anything I can do, a trick or a tweek that
can make it a bit quicker on the net? Are there things that I can turn
off in Start or anything I can adjust in the BIOS? OK that's it.
Again......Happy New Year to all.

Bill

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An IDE 100/133 controller card with a faster drive would be noticeable if
you're using a HD that's as old as your PB. But as Ben suggests, since you
want to surf faster a faster internet connection is the way to go.

<ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers)> wrote in message
news:41d6345d.28139932@nntp.charter.net...
> The motherboard is maxed out. A PCI graphics card with more memory may
> help
> some. But the real bottleneck is the 56K modem. If you can get DSL or
> cable
> internet service in your neighborhood, you'll see a real improvement. A
> PCI
> hardware modem (US Robotics for example) might help a bit, but we're not
> talking
> orders of magnitude speedup... Ben Myers
>
> On 31 Dec 2004 20:55:11 -0800, ss454_@hotmail.com wrote:
>
>>Hi--
>>
>>First off, Happy New Year to everyone!!
>>OK, so I have an older PB system, the 685 MB with a Powerleap
>>(and Mr. BIOS) running at 400 mhz, 2 megs of vid ram, 128 meg mem, 56 k
>>Aztech modem. . Is there anything I can do, a trick or a tweek that
>>can make it a bit quicker on the net? Are there things that I can turn
>>off in Start or anything I can adjust in the BIOS? OK that's it.
>>Again......Happy New Year to all.
>>
>>Bill
>>
>