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Hi ya,

I want to speed up my Internet connection as it it just 56k modem, so I have been thinking of going to broadband (With Telewest- London - UK).

But I have also been told about gettingFIREWIRE as it is a interface that also speeds up your communication.

Can any one tell me more about this card?

And, would it also be good to go not only in a PC but in a Imac, especially the new imacs that have come out.?

(They are cute, my mate has just got one and it is white, white keyboard, white mouse and very smart system).

Any information or review would be good please.

Debbie :-))
 
It shoudnt make a difference due to the fact that a networking card is 100 mega bits per second, and the dsl is 1.5 to 5 megabits. Fire wire is a lot faster than this, and its just excess.
 
OH FIREWALL NOT FIREWIRE

i MADE A MISTAKE I MEANT FIREWALL BUT I AM STILL INTERESTED IN THE AUDIO INTERFACE FIREWIRE PLEASE?

Debbie
 
A firewall is a good idea, but certainly won't affect your bandwidth to any significant degree. They ABSOLUTELY won't speed up your connection. They act as a filter between you and the internet, and just like a filter can't go any faster than the same pipeline without the filter.

Get thee a copy (free) of Zone Labs product, Zone Alarm.

The best protection is not to have your audio platform connected to the net at all. Shailat swears by this method and he knows what he is talking about.

Firewire is a pretty decent data transfer protocol designed to handle digital video. My firewire card easily transfers 3.4 MB/sec
which is what my DV cam puts out. And it specs out to a lot more than that. 400 Mbits/sec works out to about 50 MB/sec which is a rocking amount of bandwidth for audio. YMMV.

You can buy firewire external HDs that are a snap to install, but they can't compete pricewise with regular IDE drives hooked up to an ordinary IDE interface.
 
Firewire - usb

You can buy firewire external HDs that are a snap to install,

but they can't compete pricewise with regular IDE drives hooked up to an ordinary IDE interface.

Can you explain this please? Is this FIREWIRE expensive? IDE drives? What is the difference between FIREWIRE and USB ports. They both transfer data bery quickly... :-)

D x
 
Better than a software firewall is a hardware firewall. You should be able to get a cable/dsl router from Netgear or Linksys for under $100. This makes it so, basically, the router is the only thing exposed to the internet and there's nothing to hack on it.

External Firewire and USB hard drives are just IDE drives in a box. If you're looking for some removable storage, a removable IDE drive bay is a better bet - it's cheaper and faster.
 
How is it faster?

HI elevate
Force of Nature

You state that it is cheaper to get an IDE drive bay.

Would be cheaper if you want a removeable storage device.

I understand that it can be cheaper, how does this make it faster?

D :-)
 
The removeable drive in a bay is only $20 for the bracket.

The bare IDE drive is already very cheap for the size and speed.

The removeable option doesn't make it any faster. It already is!
 
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