computer modem?

Question

I have a Cox / Toshiba modem which I paid $200 , I have it for almost 5 years, recently my computer runs slow, I was told the modem is old ,and these days I can find much cheaper and faster modems, is that a fact? thanks,

Answer 1

If your pc has just started to run slow and you were using this modem before this problem, whoever told you this needs to stick with fixin sandwiches because he aint got a clue! Read below!
Things that slow your system down!
1. Computers basically have two types of memory. Ram and Rom. Lets start with Rom. Read Only Memory is a storage place where files, programs, music, pictures, etc are stored. An example of Rom is your hard drive. Your hard drive is a storage system not unlike your basic cassette player. Next comes Ram or Random Access Memory. This area of memory is where your files and programs are moved to when you use them. You give the computer a command to play a game or maybe to listen to music or perhaps even do your math for you. You click an icon or program and the processor or brain finds that data on the hard drive or cd and loads it into ram. Ram is the place where most all of your programs and files run when you are using them. The processor then controls the ram and runs the software you have chosen. Now lets say you have 100 megabytes of ram in your system. You decide to edit some photos and you start your photo program which takes 40 megabytes of ram plus 5 megabytes to load the picture you edit. You now have 65 megabytes of unused ram. You decide to fire up your media player and play a selection of songs. The media player decides it needs 40 megabytes for the player operation itself plus another 20 megabytes for the stored album you want to play. We now have a total of 5 megabytes of unused ram. You decide to fire up Weather bug or google earth or some other software and its asking for another 20 megabytes of ram. You are now choking the death out of your rescources and what do you think the system will do? Any number of things can happen including simple system shutdown. Most users seem to think that they need everything but the kitchen sink running when they start their system and then scratch their bum and wonder why their system is running so slow. A few examples of software that loads on startup would be winzip, your audio mixer, music download programs, etc! You DO NOT need this crap running! Weatherbug for instance eats up about 20 megabytes of ram just sitting there not being used! Winzip takes another 5, Close down applications you arent using!

2. Viruses, adware, trojans, malware, and hijackers! NOTHING ON THE NET IS FREE! It all comes at a cost to the user! PORN SITES, GAMBLING SITES, FREE MUSIC DOWNLOAD SITES, FREE GAMING SITES, PEER TO PEER file sharing sites, etc are FILLED with this crap! Some of it simply redirects your search to a page they make money off of or hijacks your homepage, some of it constantly monitors what you are shopping for, have you ever wondered how uncanny it is that you browsed the net for a new digital camera and the next day you were spammed to death with camera ads in e mail or have started receiving digital cam popups? Some of it simply is full of malwar and viruses that will destroy data and in severe cases wipe out your hardrive!

3. I have heard everybody and their brother claim that their system is free and clean of adware. Adware removal tools are good to have but there isnt any one that will detect all adware! I dont care if its free or cost you a hundred dollars! Think about it. Adware is being produced daily. It takes the average adware removal company 2 months to even realize that there is a new piece of adware. Now they have to develop a tool to remove it! Theres another month! How much hidden crap is really in your sytem?

4. One of the biggest problems is anti virus software. It keeps your system safe alright but in the process it slows you down sometimes even worse than the original problem did! If you use your system wisely, you dont need to run your antivirus software all the time!

Bottom line....the best system protection comes from the users own intelligence! If you browse the net wisely and follow the simple ideas above you will find your system runs far better! Dont get me wrong....do use your adware removal tools.....keep them updated and when they tell you something is trying to enter your system DONT IGNORE IT! Dont waste money on adware removal tools either! The best is still free! Spybot, Spyware Blaster, Adaware, etc are all excellent choices!

Answer 2

Jeez, this isn't rocket technological know-how. If you pay for yet another connection you are going to get the equal carrier phases on each machines. Cable IS is a shared medium so it's no worse than whilst your neighbor places of their possess cable modem. The talents to 2 modems is with the upstream limiters installed position to restrict the bandwidth to a unmarried modem. So theoretically you could have extra bandwidth to be had. Practically the cable section is more often than not oversubscribed to a factor in which limiters aren't almost always wanted because the total purchaser load at the section limits the exact throughput. Is the feasible efficiency benefit valued at it? Maybe, however don't get your hopes up. Where you could see an exact difficulty in enforcing this resolution is with the sign phases. By splitting the cable you upload a three db loss at each and every break up. So via doing so you are going to diminish the sign to each instruments. This isn't always a truly difficulty until you have already got a marginal sign. Normally prime great cable and splitters will do the task, however a $one hundred bidirectional cable amplifier will manage such a lot sign degree disorders.

Answer 3

The likely culprit is your computer. It hay have spyware and adware and other stuff on it that's making it run slow. If your modem and advertized connection speed have remained the same, yet you sense your computer is slower, it's probably the computer's problem and not the modems.

Answer 4

If your modem is for dial-up, and it's a 56K modem, then no. If you're looking for broadband access, then yes, but you would need a broadband provider.

Answer 5

yes, that is a fact.