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Internet Report

Here is the latest information on how the traffic is on the Internet today

The IWR™ presents ongoing animated scans of conditions within the Internet. It is like daily newspaper or television weather radar reports, except instead of being about real world meteorology, it is about conditions inside the Internet itself Click Here

Both resources above are excellent indicators of how the Net is performing on any give day at any given time. They also have information that would explain why your system might not move along the Net as fast as your neighbor on a different ISP. Try them both out and see for yourself how valuable these two sites can be.