How is it that I'm on line with a P200 that Comcast says can't do it?

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!Allen Lasting

Hi,

I put a nic card in my old P200 compaq tonight, with 64 megs of ram in it,
and connected it to comcast broadband via my router with a cat5 cable.
Then I set up an internet account and a mail account using outlook express.
Then I updated win98 at Microsoft's website.

Here's the funny thing I can't figure out. I went to Comcast's web site,
and searched to look up what the minimum hardware configuarion was, and
they said the minimum hardware to connect to their boradband system is a 300
Mhz CPU and 128 Megs of ram. I'm surfing the net perfectly fine
with the P 200 and with 64 MB of ram. How can this be?

Al
 
and your happy, however some people would complain about the speed
compared to the neighbors and figure is comcasts fault.
 
!Allen Lasting said:
Hi,

I put a nic card in my old P200 compaq tonight, with 64 megs of ram in it,
and connected it to comcast broadband via my router with a cat5 cable.
Then I set up an internet account and a mail account using outlook express.
Then I updated win98 at Microsoft's website.

Here's the funny thing I can't figure out. I went to Comcast's web site,
and searched to look up what the minimum hardware configuarion was, and
they said the minimum hardware to connect to their boradband system is a 300
Mhz CPU and 128 Megs of ram. I'm surfing the net perfectly fine
with the P 200 and with 64 MB of ram. How can this be?

Al
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In things like this, 'minimum requirements' are defined by what results in
'reasonable performance'; not that "anything less won't work."

'Reasonable performance' is, of course, a subjective thing but comcast
probably doesn't want folks with a 'slow' computer complaining "I thought
you said your service was 'fast'."
 
David said:
'Reasonable performance' is, of course, a subjective thing but comcast
probably doesn't want folks with a 'slow' computer complaining "I thought
you said your service was 'fast'."
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What he said.
 
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