In this section you'll find applications, utilities and links to third party providers designed to help you understand your system's abilities and limitations. Getting to know your computer will allow you to become a better shopper and will ultimately save you time and money whenever you're ready to upgrade or add computer hardware as well as software.
If you are not sure what type of memory your computer has, Crucial has an excellent tool that helps you determine the right type and the amount of memory you can add to your computer system. Just click on the link to the left and in a few moments you'll get the information you need!
Knowing your actual internet connection speed is extremely important. Not only does it allow you to rate the performance of your Internet Service Provider, or ISP, but it also lets you find out if there might be a problem with your PC. High speed internet, or broadband internet is now the norm. Cable operators, such as Time Warner, and phone companies like AT&T are the main providers of this type of service. Dial Up internet service is no longer an attractive or even productive type of internet connection service, unless there is no other option. Internet speed is measured in megabits per second, or mbps. The faster the connection speed, the higher the mbps value, but what does that mean to you? Let's imagine that your cousin Louie sent you an email with a picture of his newborn baby, and that he took the picture with his 6.0 Mega Pixels digital camera. That means that a typical medium resolution picture file would use about 3.1 MB of memory. When you receive that file on your inbox tray and are prompted to download it into your pc, the rate of speed of that file traveling through the internet to your PC is in direct proportion to the service provided -and charged monthly- by your internet carrier. The link from speedtest.net displayed to the right is a great tool to help you determine your internet speed.