Solved Is this good?

[bridges1993]

 

[severedsolo]

You may want to check out this thread: http://www.sevenforums.com/network-sharing/1200-whats-your-internet-speed.htmlhttp://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/180297-good.html

 

[bridges1993]

o my,, mine really sucks

 

[severedsolo]

Not really, what sort of connection do you have? Is it ADSL?

Until March of this year, my speeds were 8Mb/s down and 443Kb/s up. Your connection is alot faster compared to that

 

[bridges1993]

its just dsl through att u-verse

 

[severedsolo]

What you have to remember with DSL is that it is dependant on your distance from the exchange.

Your speeds aren't bad at all. Here in the UK, the average broadband speed is just 4Mb/s down. I'm lucky, as I live basically next door to the exchange, so I get 20Mb/s down on ADSL2+ but many many people don't even get 4.

Ultimately with DSL your speed is dependant on Line quality... in fact, here is an article I wrote on it: http://www.sevenforums.com/network-sharing/165290-broadband-speed-tests.html#post1418239

 

[bridges1993]

well what is your view on hp laptops?

 

[severedsolo]

You're going to have to be a bit more specific... if you can supply a model number, and what you want it for, we can probably advise you. HP laptops are like any other laptop, some are good, some are bad, it all depends what you want from it.

 

[bridges1993]

well i have just purchased an hp g7 1150us. w/ 4gb ram and a 640 gb hdd. any good?

 

[bridges1993]

 

[severedsolo]

This one? HP Pavilion g7-1150us Notebook PC, charcoal | HP® Official Store

It looks like a fairly solid machine, good amount of RAM, decent Processor, N wireless, a very good every day machine.

As far as I can see, the only thing it will probably fail with is gaming, due to having an integrated graphics chip. In my opinion Laptops shouldn't be used for gaming anyway, as the parts can't stand up to the stress.

It really depends what you plan to use the machine for though, It will probably do whatever you want it to.

My only criticism really, apart from the inegrated graphics, which is normal, is the HDD is a little slow, I would rather have a 7200RPM HDD than 5400, but that's just me.

 

[bridges1993]

yeah. thats it. i hate games on pc anyway i love my ps3 and the only thing i use it for is like video and that sort.

 

[severedsolo]

Well in that case, I would say you have made a good purchase

 

[bridges1993]

ok thank you for your help. i do appreciate it.i have one more question what does LAN stand for?

 

[severedsolo]

LAN is "Local Area Network". Basically, a network that isn't directly connected to the internet. IE, anything behind your router.

If you mean in context of your Laptop specs, it refers to the speed that the machine can talk to other machines on the network at. In your case 100Mb/s which is about normal.