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The New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative has published a report called Bandwidth Caps for Residential High Speed Internet in the US and Japan I remember us talking in class one day about the bandwidth limitations we have here in the United States. I found this site which clearly supports this fact. The table that is posted on this site give a clear visual example of how much slower our download speeds are here in the US, and also that we pay an absurd amount of money compared to Japan to surf the internet. Not only is the United States ranked 27th in average internet download speeds, but we are paying a lot of money for these slow download speeds. For example, you could pay $60 a month for internet whose download speed would max at 10mbps, and an upload speed of 512kbps when you could pay $60 a month over in Japan for a download and upload speed of 100mbps! So essentially we are paying the same amount of money for internet that is ten times slower than what we could get it for over in Japan.

This article gives some very good advice to assist in speedreading. I felt it was a very appropiate article for our meeting on Sunday, and this website may further help some people.

You're all probably familiar with speedtest, well their newest website is called pingtest. It has a pretty similar interface and if you've ever used speedtest it shouldn't be to hard to figure out. It can be used to calculate packet loss, ping, and jitter. After your test is complete it gives you a grade, describing the quality of your connection. I think its pretty cool, and I'm glad that they've stayed with the same great interface. Just another cool website to keep in mind!