What's the system specs?

I've got an old p166, with 32 meg edo ram somehere in the house (in pieces at the moment), it had no probs going on the internet.

I ran it with win 98 and IE about a year ago and the speed wasnt bad.

My advice is the same as i gave above, but make sure you install the firewall before going on the net to get updates from microsoft, otherwise your system will be vulnerable to random hacking attacks.