I just got broadband (cable) for my iMac G3 350 MHz. The advertised speed of the service is 3000k download. Whenever I run internet speed tests on my WIndows XP laptop, I get around 3096k, but whenever I run a speed test on my Mac, I get around 800k-1300k (much slower than the PC). The computers are all connected via a Linksys WRT54G (with the latest firmware). I know the router is not the problem, because the Windows laptop gets the full speeds perfectly. Why is this happening? Is it a simple setting that I overlooked? Thanks for any help!! -MikeG

yes this is true Broadband IS faster on PC than on Mac with one proccessor

Wow... very interesting... BTW, it seems that I can get a bit more speed on my Internet Explorer (Mac) than on safari... I would much rather use Safari, any other suggestions? -MikeG

That's not a hard and fast rule..my G3 450 MH is almost twice as fast..real world..i routinely get (350 KB/S +) 300 meg downloads done in well under 15 minutes whereas the PCon the sme download can end up never going over 250 KB/S ..it rarely downloads over 350 KB/S whereas this is a more common occurence with the mac..as they both have the older 10/100 cards in them i expect there's just a lot of variables that can make any generalizations difficult..the net cards play a large part, as well as any potential bottlenecks. I would expect, in fact, any newer mac to be faster than a factory assembled PC..due to the integration of the circuit board and hardware in the newer macs..this kind of integrated design is really beeficial for PC's too, i have a Compaq 486 66MH all-in -one that, despite a slower net card, andharddrive, etc, is much faster in every real world way , including net access, than this 'assembled' pentium100 mmx (an older MDG). It was in fact true about the first powermacs, that their broadband access were very much slower than a comparable P.C. also using broadband..again, due to a motherboard design flaw... The 350 MHZ iMacs, if i'm not mistaken, have only a 10mbps card anyways, so for it to be even close in performance to a 10/100 NIC speaks wads about design...

Thanks for the info! BTW, the 350 iMac does have a 10/100 NIC. -MikeG