[Dxspider-support] PC Speed

Darren Collins G0TSM darren at g0tsm.com
Mon Mar 31 09:25:45 BST 2003


Hi Gang
I'm currently running Spider in Win98se on a P100 laptop. I'm interested in 
speeding things up a little and I did try to install Redhat 8.1 on another 
PC but i got stuffed when trying to load drivers for a network card. 
However, I wonder how long a 'SH/DX' would take under a Linux OS.

For my test I entered SH/DX VK0IR

P100            22 seconds.     Win98se 64Mb
P200mmx         17 seconds.     Win98se 64Mb
P200mmx 17 seconds      WinXP Pro 64Mb Boot time 8 minutes! :-)
PII-200 6 seconds.      Win98se 96Mb
K6-2/500        3 seconds.      Win98se 256Mb
K6-2/500        3 seconds.      WinXP Pro 256Mb
Athlon 1GHz     1 second.       WinXP Pro 640Mb
Athlon 2GHz     1 second.       WinXP Pro 1Gb


Also, does anyone have a website where I could possibly download old spot 
data so I can add missing days to my 2002 folder?,

regards, Darren G0TSM (GB7EDX)






























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