[Ace]

My parents are planning to get ADSL from the Telus server and I was wondering if my computer will support this high speed connection. It's a 450Mhz, Windows 2000 SP3, 128MB RAM, and 8GB hard drive. The mother board did not come with a ethernet card only a modem. So would that affect the compatiblilty? Also, would an internal or external ethernet be better and would either of them affected the connection speed or anything?

[DosFreak]

Since it's a P3 450 it likely has USB1. USB1 will eat up a couple of processor cycles while your on the net (depending on whether or not the USB DSL "Modem" has an onboard processor or not) even if it doesn't it's nothing to really worry about. I would worry a little bit if you plan on using other USB1 devices such as speakers, webcams, mice, keyboards..etc...etc.

So if possible I recommend using a NIC instead of USB.

As for if your computer will support that speed? LOL. Companies have had P3's connected to 10/100mb Ether and fiberlinks for YEARS. Considering your DSL connection will only be offering you a couple of megs I think you'll be fine.

[bobbinbrisco]

considering ur CPU u should get a ethernet modem simply because a USB one will cause u to get lag spikes- uses the power from the comp but this shouldnt be a problem if u dont plan on playing online much (this is a small problem otherwise a USB modem is fine).

for more information check out this great broadband site
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=86201#R5

also plan on getting a bigger harddrive coz now ull be able to download a lot more and a whole lot faster too!!

[Tomay]

I'm running a celeron 433 @541 with 192MB ram with w2000. I have 2 3com ethernet cards, one for networking and one for my cablemodem. The only problem is the that when my firewall and other stuff when running eats away all my memory. Than the computer gets slower. But in terms of processor speed you're good to go. And do get a ehternet card. I you can't afford a 3 com get some cheap one. Anything is better than usb.