[BronzeHotel]

Thanks to the attempts to help so far.
One misunderstanding that some have: the "little box" I was talking about is not really a "box" -- it is just a tiny cube with two phone jack holes, so it is NOT a modem!
I'm still working on my problem. I found an external modem, have set it up, but now need to know how to get my computer to recognize it so that it will work to connect me to the Net. The modem is a V32 Zoom.

[BronzeHotel]

UPDATE
Well, I connected a V32 Zoom external modem to the Mac, and it worked.
However, the navigation speed is considerably
slower than it is on my other computer, a Compaq PC using the same
dial-up connection.
Simple navigation maneuvers
are very slow on the Mac at present. For
example, the time it takes from the moment I
click on "Reply" to reply to an email (on my free Yahoo email account) to the
moment where I can begin actually typing my reply is about
45 seconds on the Mac, whereas on the PC it is
about 5 seconds. That is almost 10 times slower.
My PC is using the same dialup connection and has
an internal 56 modem -- but as someone told me, my
dialup connection is probably not using all 56 K
anyway... So why the marked difference in speed?
Any suggestions as to how I can at least match
the speed of my PC?

[Typhoon14]

You're running a very old mac with just barely enough harddrive space and RAM to boot OS X. I imagine everything is going to run very slow, including web rendering.
I'm assuming your PC is either newer, or running an older system.

[zarmanto]

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Any suggestions as to how I can at least match the speed of my PC?

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I agree with Typhoon14; I'm afraid that Macintosh of yours is a bit older, (probably circa 1999 or so) and it's probably not performing optimally because the computer itself was released before the software that you're trying to run on it. They made them in beige at first, and then later in blue-and-white; I had a beige G3 myself, at about that time.
Can you check something on the PC? Right click on the "My Computer" icon on the desktop, and select "Properties" from the bottom of the menu. It should give you a little dialog box with some basic information about the PC; hopefully it'll have info about the operating system in the top half, and some more info about the computer itself in the bottom half. We can then use these figures to compare the capabilities of your PC to those of your Macinosh.

[Nobody]

OK, I am going to guess and I just know what that box is. It is no other than a phone line splitter. Aha!!!

[BronzeHotel]

Stranger,
My PC info:
Windows 98 4.10.1998
GenuineIntel
Pentium® II Processor
Intel MMX™
64.0 MB RAM
System resources: 45% free
File system: 32-bit
Virtual memory: 32-bit

[BronzeHotel]

that last post should have been addressed to "zarmanto"

[Typhoon14]

It's an older system, but it's also running a 9-year-old OS, versus a 3-three-old one on the G3. Try loading Windows XP on the Pentium, and you'll see your performance take a nose-dive.

[sereluna]

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Any suggestions as to how I can at least match
the speed of my PC?

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Check your modem drivers.

[maczan1205]

My guess is that the "box" might be a appletalk network connector that uses phone wire for networking, the kind that used to be used for networking printers?

[maczan1205]

When you start the machine in OS9 do you still have the same speed problems?
If you get better results in OS9 it may be that your modem / driver / firmware does not work well with OSX 10.2

[JackMac]

I'm surprised OS X runs at all with only 64 MB of RAM let alone anything else.
If you have this then go here and get more RAM at least 256 more.

[Nobody]

That's possible. I googled one and it seems like a splitter, except, the 9 pin connector on one end looks like one of Apple connectors. You'd find one in every shipping Mac, I believe it is the USB end one to serial.

[BronzeHotel]

maczan,
How do I go about running OS 9 on my computer? I'd like to give that a try.

To the person above (sorry, can't see the name now) who said:
"I'm surprised OS X runs at all with only 64 MB"
Actually, that's what it says on the back of my computer, but when I look at the specs inside System, it says 320.