How much powerful processor is required while downlaoding data from a high speed internet connection

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Published on 2010-05-16T10:52:07Z Indexed on 2010/05/16 11:00 UTC
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Hello, I was just wondering about the use of a processor while downloading any data (say for example a movie) from internet. Can anyone tell me, how much a processor is really in use while downloading and in first place is a processor really required during download.

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