said by fAcEtIOUs:said by Fox McCloud:104 kilobits a second? Whaaa? That doesn't make much sense; I can see 104 kiloBYTES a second, but kilobits? 104 kilobits is about what you would get with shotgun dial-up or cellular 1xRTT.
and Connecticut is only listed as 200 kilobits? once again, kilobytes would make more sense...but still.
There's very few companies that even offer 256k broadband anymore; most offer, at the very least, 512k, and most are ditching that for the "new low standard" of 768k.
I think PC Magazine has their heads up their own butt...
It is measuring browser speeds; not link speeds. That involves: opening multiple Jpegs; connections to info, ads, pics from other sites that a web page links to to get its whole page, etc. It also depends on the browser settings(how many simultaneous streams to open, RWIN size, etc) and on the speed of the computer and what browser software is being used. In other words, it isn't measuring link speed. It is more a measurement of server/client capabilities than it is of maximum throughput.
You can go to this non-PCmag website that measures web browsing speeds and not file transfer speeds and get very similar results. »
www.numion.com/YourSpeed3/Run.ph···urfSpeed[att=1]
And here is what PCmag is measuring:
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Oh, ok, thanks for informing me (I hate unintentionally spreading false info).
