What kind of computer can do this? Please help!?

Question

I need to know what kind of computer can do these following 4 things:

1.The computer should be able to connect to an industry standard wired network and, under ideal conditions, transfer the equivalent of 12.5 million characters to another computer in one second.

2.The computer should be able to connect to an industry standard wireless network and, under ideal conditions, transfer the equivalent of 6.75 million characters to another computer in one second.

3.The computer should be able to connect to a regular telephone wall jack and transfer up to 57,600 "0s or 1s" to another computer in one second.

4.The computer's display should be able to display at least 786,432 dots at one time.

Actually, I also need to know what those things mean in English! Not computer talk.

Answer 1

What an odd question, I can only assume these are numbers from a text book.
Isn't your teacher a tricky one.... read the book!

1. As the other poster stated any newer computer can easily handle this rate. As for the network that is another thing. Signal degradation can come from many things. Distance, type of network topology, speed of network controlers, a loose wire, ect. + I hope it's wired for 100baseT, because that is the lowest type of ethernet you run to get speeds of 12.5mb.

2. The fastest wireless networks are 802.11N. You would need to purchase the router & network cards. Though, a wireless network is as slow as it's slowest component. So if you have someone with a 802.11a card connecting, your speed will suffer. This because 802.11 specifies backwards compatibility so the router will adjust for the slower specification to have access.

3. throw any old modem in that supports standard data transfers can do this, now a phone line that will provide it is another thing. Most dial-up isp's restrict data transfer rates.

4. A video card that supports 1024 x 768 pixels (the dot's are called pixels). I believe that SVGA cards offer this particular resolution.

Answer 2

any of the newer pc's should be capable of that