Okay, so I'm a retard. Could someone explain to me why whenever I go
online (via dial-up), my G4 iMac is utterly incapable of performing more
than one Internet task at a time?

For instance, I'm downloading a largish file from Safari. Well, while this
is going on, any attempt to look at a new web page, or check my e-mail, or
hit Usenet or IRC is either excruciatingly slow, or fails completely.

I'm running OSX 10.3.5, incidentially. But the iMac's Internet performance
is no better if I boot up and go online in OS 9.2. Presumably this points
to something goofy with Apple's internal modem? Yet the connection works
fine and everything downloads correctly without a problem -- there's
simply no Internet 'multi-tasking' going on in the background.

Any pointers/help here would be appreciated. Thanks!

dial up connections are slow with internal 56k modem you end u
downloading about 7k per seconds ! and multitasking doesn't help bu
rather slow down the dowloading process.

Get a DSL or cable connection if you are using the web to downloa
large files and if want to enjoy multitasking, hope you have at leas
512mb ram as well as use the apple combined update to upgrade fro
x.3.5 to x.3.9 you can find it here :

http://www.apple.com/support/panther/

regards

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dial up connections are slow with internal 56k modem you end u
downloading about 7k per seconds ! and multitasking doesn't help bu
rather slow down the dowloading process.

Get a DSL or cable connection if you are using the web to downloa
large files and if want to enjoy multitasking, hope you have at leas
512mb ram as well as use the apple combined update to upgrade fro
x.3.5 to x.3.9 you can find it here :

http://www.apple.com/support/panther/

regards

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In article
<truenames-2308050437550001@user-2ivebjj.dialup.mindspring.com>,
truenames@vinge.com (Mr. Slippery) wrote:

> Okay, so I'm a retard. Could someone explain to me why whenever I go
> online (via dial-up), my G4 iMac is utterly incapable of performing more
> than one Internet task at a time?
>
> For instance, I'm downloading a largish file from Safari. Well, while this
> is going on, any attempt to look at a new web page, or check my e-mail, or
> hit Usenet or IRC is either excruciatingly slow, or fails completely.
>
> I'm running OSX 10.3.5, incidentially. But the iMac's Internet performance
> is no better if I boot up and go online in OS 9.2. Presumably this points
> to something goofy with Apple's internal modem? Yet the connection works
> fine and everything downloads correctly without a problem -- there's
> simply no Internet 'multi-tasking' going on in the background.
>
> Any pointers/help here would be appreciated. Thanks!

When you're already squeezing a camel through that dial-up needle eye,
you'll simply have to wait until its through before proceeding with the
next one. Or get a bigger needle, ie broadband.

In article
<truenames-2308050437550001@user-2ivebjj.dialup.mindspring.com>,
truenames@vinge.com (Mr. Slippery) wrote:

> Okay, so I'm a retard. Could someone explain to me why whenever I go
> online (via dial-up), my G4 iMac is utterly incapable of performing more
> than one Internet task at a time?
>
> For instance, I'm downloading a largish file from Safari. Well, while this
> is going on, any attempt to look at a new web page, or check my e-mail, or
> hit Usenet or IRC is either excruciatingly slow, or fails completely.
>
> I'm running OSX 10.3.5, incidentially. But the iMac's Internet performance
> is no better if I boot up and go online in OS 9.2. Presumably this points
> to something goofy with Apple's internal modem? Yet the connection works
> fine and everything downloads correctly without a problem -- there's
> simply no Internet 'multi-tasking' going on in the background.
>
> Any pointers/help here would be appreciated. Thanks!

When you're already squeezing a camel through that dial-up needle eye,
you'll simply have to wait until its through before proceeding with the
next one. Or get a bigger needle, ie broadband.