How do I get faster internet speed?

[rowlfe]

OK, so there is a way to measure the speed using a utility program you have with windoze, trace route. Open a command window. Ping is useless for measuring the speeds between nodes, which trace route does. Obviously YOU do not understand what ping MEANS. At the prompt, enter the following:

tracert microsoft.com

This will display times for each hop between you and Microsoft. Put in the domain you want to test instead of Microsoft.com as I used for this example. You will see up to 30 hops. All but #1 (to your ISP) is beyond your control. ANY link between you and where-ever dot com could be a bottleneck. The only link you can affect is the one to your ISP. So if you want faster, contact your ISP and arrange for a faster connection, but still, nothing else will be affected beyond hop #1 to your ISP.