[theBuckwheat]

Customers who think this service will give them the full rate need to understand that their connection to a remote server goes through quite a few intermediate connections and links.

The datarate to any particular website will be limited to the speed of the slowest link in the chain of connections.

There is a utility called Traceroute that discovers and reports the IP address and delay time for each hop for a connection. Windows has a similar utility that the user can run. I am sure that a google search can yield instructions for Windoze users.

[dayglored]

> There is a utility called Traceroute that discovers and reports the IP address and delay time for each hop for a connection. Windows has a similar utility that the user can run. I am sure that a google search can yield instructions for Windoze users.

Windows has "tracert.exe".

On most Linuxes there's an improved "live" version called "mtr" (My TraceRoute or Mike's TraceRoute) which does the trace repeatedly and calculates averages, best/worst, and also lists dropped packets.