Quadra 610 very slow internet

[micler]

Hi there, I'm new and I think these forums are great! I didn't know there were so many old Mac users out there

I have a Quadra 610 running OS 8.0, and connected to the internet by an AAUI to 10BaseT ethernet dongle. Using Netscape 4 (or other browsers), I am able to connect, but the speed is horrible. Netscape displays the download speed in the status bar and the most I have seen it is 4.8K/sec. I have DSL, and newer computers have good speed. Any ideas?

In case it matters, a Power Mac 6100 with the same AAUI ethernet dongle works just fine, and is plenty fast (or at least what you might expect).

Thanks in advance!

 

[TylerEss]

This is the expected behavior, sadly. It seems to be a problem with every web browser running on a 68k Mac.

Do you get the same horribly-slow speeds when using another networking application, such as an FTP client? I suspect that you won't...

 

[QuadSix50]

Yeah, most of today's web is a bit much for the older Macs....especially 68K Macs. They can still browse just fine, but anything requiring CSS/Javascript will bring it to a crawl. But for standard HTML, it should be OK....not fast, but still decent.

 

[micler]

Thanks, both of you are right: FTP is the same speed (or nearly so) of any newer computer, and with JS and CSS turned off, web browsing really improves. Good to know.