Linus Torvalds is a god damn thief!!! When I installed Linux it asked me for my credit card number. Two days later I got a call from Wachovia asking me if I had purchased $400 worth of Totino's pizza rolls and Mountain Dew (I hadn't). Let this be a warning to all of you out there on the Internet.

No, it's cable. Cable modems support up to 30mbps. For example here a link from what I have with Time Warner: http://www.timewarnercable.com/centraltx/Products/Internet/rrpremium.html

Comcast has 25mbps+ cable speeds in some cities as well.

Downloading and all sorts of things. Why wouldn't they need that speed? My parents aren't computer illiterate dumbasses so they can do with it whatever they please I guess.

Possibly, but you are hardly going to get a ton of paging going on at 512 megs that is going to make that big of a difference. If my parents computer can max out at 22mbps with all the crap that is running on it, then you'd have to be doing some seriously memory hogging to get it to get as bad as the stupid stats in the article.

Yes, it really doesn't take that long to open up a network monitor, go to the site and then open up a file to play. Was it supposed to take me an hour to do such an extraordinarily simple set of tasks? This test in the article is seriously stupid, but so are the claims that XP somehow can't use the full speed of someone's connection at 512 megs of RAM. Especially when all the people claiming it have as much evidence to back up their claims as the person in the article does for theirs (none).

And just to further add, I've already stated this whole test is full of shit. My parents have a XP box with 512 megs of RAM that is running all sorts of bullshit crap all the time (cause they think they need all manor of crap running on the systray) and they max out their 22mbps cable connection. It's just hilarious to see all the stupid "BUT IT HAD MORE MEMORY!!" comebacks to try to invalidate this idiotic "test" from the article.

Okay, I just did. Watching the network traffic there was no difference in the internet throughput. Thanks for playing!

What exact good is it going to do to have a public blacklist when it's illegal for any citizen in the country to verify that the site is legitimately blocked? Do you even think through the shit you type?

Yeah people keep claiming this with no real data to prove it up so it's about as worthless as the shit that the article claims. My parents have an XP box with only 512 megs of RAM and it easily maxes out at the 22mbps that they have. And that's with a half dozen apps open and at least 8 things running in the background on the systray. Seriously, the extra 256 megs of RAM isn't going to give you magically 2x the bandwidth.

Yes, because the only major difference, the 256 megs of more RAM, really is what gave them double internet speeds on the test. Hahahahaha, yeah right. I guess I'm going to have to go stick another gig of RAM in my box so I can get 4x the internet bandwidth of what I have now!

People who have cable service that gives them 22mbps? Such a thing isn't that extraordinary.