Find the Fastest ISP

摘要

Broadband, Shmroadband. Surfing the web is still sometimes more like wading against the current. Images crawl up the screen, chunks of text appear...sllloww- wly... at your favorite portal. What if Web browsing were much faster? What if the entire page popped up instantly? In this scenario, you'd probably get your browsing done faster, visit more pages, find time for friends and family, even leave your house on occasion. Faster browsing is certainly possible, but there's a wide gap between theoretical broadband speed—the one your Internet service provider lists on your bill, such as 3 megabits per second (Mbps)—and actual browsing speed, which might be more like 200 kilobits per second (Kbps).