10mb wireless internet on a dell 1300 laptop is it possible?

scoobysnaks

I have this new dell 1300 laptop with a Intel® Celeron® M Processor 370 (1.50 GHz, 1MB L2 Cache, 400 MHz FSB) 760mb ram which is pretty basic.

spec here:

I am thinking of upgrading to a 10mb internet connection from a 4mb line.

Do you think my laptop could perform at the 10mb speed?

Thoughts appreciated please.

Regards.

gavinp

Most non-wireless networks run at 100Mbps so yes your laptop will comfortably run with a 10Mbps broadband connection.

If you use a wireless network, it is worth ensuring that you use both a 802.11g wireless network card and 802.11g router which run at 54Mbps (20Mbps in the real world).

If you used a 802.11b card or router which runs at 11Mbps (5 Mbps real world), this would create a bottleneck.

Thanks

Gavin

wolfman

Spot on. Good advice.

Will you actually get the full 10Mbps? I'm on an 8Mbps service (or upto) but barely manage over two We're quite a distance from the exchange though.