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Originally Posted by gringobizadvisors
A jammed up slow hard drive will slow this down even if you have a fast connection
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Annie,
The 100Mbps is your on-board Ethernet card. This doesn't come into play too much if you're not on a local network (like in an office setting).
The traditional 10/100 ethernet cards are more than sufficient to handle your Claro connection. When you signed up, you elected a speed plan: 256, 512, 1026, etc.
However, those speeds are not guaranteed (especially since Codetel is short on bandwidth (which is like Internet talk for fluid viscosity). You can Google "how fast is my internet connection" and some decent sites will pop up where you can perform a quick test.
In NY, I had Optimum, and viewing video was instant. DR is a different story based on the number of subscribers vs. available bandwidth.
You PC or laptop is a huge factor as well. Most people assume their Internet connection speed is the limiting factor, but this is not true. An older PC/laptop may have a very cluttered (fragmented) hard drive and this is the #1 problem of slow PCs/laptops. Memory is also a factor, but not as much as disk read/write speed.
The new 'SATA' drives are quite fast. This combined with dual processing and memories up to 4gig RAM and higher will result in super-fast buffering times with a 512K Internet connection.