What's more, these measurements show that increasing bandwidth to the home or office beyond ISDN speeds will probably not improve the Web experience for end users until backbone connectivity improves dramatically. The complete text of the press release announcing these results, as well as an article providing details and analysis , are available online. The results and methodology are also summarized below. Please return to our web site then for the new results.
Lower numbers are better and indicate faster performance than higher numbers.
The data was analyzed and the rankings produced by the editorial staff of Boardwatch Magazine , Jack Rickard editor and publisher. The methodology is described below. Complete profiles, technical descriptions, and coverage maps of many of the backbones are also available online . To measure backbone performance, Keynote downloaded 10,000 bytes from one web server on each backbone network and recorded how long this took, from the time the URL was requested until the bytes were downloaded from the server across the Internet to the measurement location. Each complete measurement was multiplied by 5 to produce a result more representative of how long it would actually take a user to download a full web page with all its graphics.