Summary of ISP

Check out this site and test your connection speed:

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

http://www.speedtest.net/global.php:

http://helpme.att.net/dsl/speedtest/

Kilobits per second and kilobytes per seconds:
ISP advertise with Kilobits, because of big numbers and we don't use much of kilobits, we get confused.
Let's say we saw an advertisement that says 5130 Kilobits for speed.

It is actually “641.25” Kilobytes in speed.
See the difference 5130 Kilobits
..............................641 Kilobytes

Avoid AOL dial up or Wallmart connection because you are paying way too much.

When you download file from web page you see message like
6.9 of 126.8MB at 471KB/Sec; 04:20 remain
That Blue portion is Kilobits per second.

One could use Google calculator to calculate:
Just type in a Google search engine : 630 kilobits in kilobytes and it will give you an answer.

Now you know the difference between Kilobits per second and Kilobytes per second. Please check your telephone directly and compare the local different Internet provider.

I know some people had dial up forever, and they have been paying same amount of money they could get 15 to 30 times faster DSL
line for same price.

If your connection is way slow than ISP advertise, complain and ask them to help you get up to speed!

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