Effect of network on a Music PC

[Kevin Deschwazi]

I can't afford a seperate PC for recording so I use my PC for web browsing as well as recording audio.

My housemate has decided she wants broadband from her PC also. To cut a long story short the best solution involves me installing an ADSL Modem router to my PC and setting up a network.

Any idea what kind of effect will this have on the performnace of my PC in relation to recording audio?

PC spec:

P4 3.0ghz
1024 Ram
120GB HDD
running Windows XP
M Audio Delta 1010LT soundcard

Thanks

 

[LemonTree]

partition the drive and put a dual boot in. One setup for the network, the other a stripped out version for audio. It works

Or better still, why not just keep yours for audio only and set up your house mates for the net and you use that one when you wanna surf?

 

[BentRabbit]

I can't afford a seperate PC for recording so I use my PC for web browsing as well as recording audio.

My housemate has decided she wants broadband from her PC also. To cut a long story short the best solution involves me installing an ADSL Modem router to my PC and setting up a network.

Any idea what kind of effect will this have on the performnace of my PC in relation to recording audio?

PC spec:

P4 3.0ghz
1024 Ram
120GB HDD
running Windows XP
M Audio Delta 1010LT soundcard

Thanks

If you're not going to be offering any of your computer's resources out to the network (i.e. sharing printers, files, etc.) You will notice absolutely zero/zilch/nada/null performance degradation...

Just plugging into the Broadband router doesn't make your system work any differently other than answering TCP/IP broadcast queries on the network... And those are totally negligible, especially with the kind of firepower you're sporting on your system...

Hope this helps!

 

[Kevin Deschwazi]

Hope this helps!

Indeed it does, thanks to you both.

 

[TimOBrien]

It's an old line of thinking from years ago when computers were 1/10th the speed they are now.

Just dont share your drives/printers/peripherals across the network and record away....