I am running a P133 which I would guess is a lot slower that a lot of people here have and for internet communications is perfectly adequate and I have no need to upgrade. I have seen memory and software mentioned - I run windows 95 and IE5 and my computer has 32mb ram and 8.4gb hard disk (I had to upgrade on that for other reasons). The only other change I made was to install a V90 modem.

There are times when internet communications are slow but this appears to be connected to traffic on the net rather than my computer and there are certain times when I find that switching from one of my 2 free internet accounts to the other speed up communications dramatically especially early evening (sreaming.net - one of them offers free phone calls to connect after 6pm and the service takes a hammering - it can take me 20minutes just to log on at that time).

Jon