[Jerry Shaw]

Originally Posted by Bill Gardner What is your internet speed? Go to this link http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ Select the Chicago, IL location. and post your download speed. Mine is 5145 kbps

Thanks Bill for the link to that site. For quite a few years I have had Verizon DSL as my IP. On the day you put the link up, their connection tested at their limits of:

768 kbps download
133 kbps upload

I never really knew just how slow my connection was. But armed with that information, I talked to Verizon and learned that was as good as they would be able to do, in my area. Then I talked to Time Warner/ Roadrunner and found out they would be able to guarantee at least 10,000 kbps for less than $10 more that I was paying for Verizon. I had it installed today and the initial test was:

21,527 kbps download
967 kbps upload

There's a big difference. Thanks.

Jerry