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

[!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

 

[JAD]

and your happy, however some people would complain about the speed
compared to the neighbors and figure is comcasts fault.

 

[David Maynard]

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

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'."

 

[ToolPackinMama]

'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'."

What he said.