It's not just boy racers on tarmac roads who yearn for more speed. On the information superhighway more speed means more words, more pictures, more sound—and more entertainment all round. Yet everyone who has been there knows that there are bottlenecks galore. You can avoid the worst congestion by navigating the Net at a time when most users—and that means Americans—are asleep. But there is another bottleneck closer to home: it runs from the back of your computer to the local telephone exchange. On this "information driveway", speed is limited by the trusty modem.
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