| For decades, young men and women across the | | | | measure upload time and there was no common |
| U.S. and Canada have viewed their automobiles | | | | standard. |
| as an extension of their persona. Young men | | | | |
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| vehicles with large tires and a masculine | | | | Service |
| growl. Young women, on the other hand, tended | | | | |
| to drive less ostentatious vehicles with soft | | | | Now, new online services operate in much the |
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| | | | speed shop might for car owners. They can |
| If Your Computer is Slow - Are You Slow Too? | | | | give your computer an Internet speed test and |
| | | | then from there, they can offer you the tools |
| In recent times the computer that a young | | | | to improve your speed. This means that |
| person owns and spends time on has taken on | | | | Internet users who thought they they were |
| somewhat of the same connotation, in that | | | | stuck with the speed that they had, now have |
| today "speed is everything". This has led | | | | the option of upgrading for higher |
| some people to feel, right or wrong, that if | | | | performance. |
| a young person has a slow computer, then | | | | |
| perhaps they too may be slow in some way. | | | | A New Common Standard |
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| Older Inaccurate Internet Speed Test | | | | The Internet speed test that they offer is a |
| | | | complete and comprehensive test that times |
| In the past, computer owners that were | | | | not just your download time but also your |
| curious about the actual speed of their | | | | upload time as well. Both of these factors |
| computer while they were on the Internet, | | | | are combined into one integer and now that |
| would give themselves a simple but somewhat | | | | all services are using this same test, there |
| inaccurate Internet speed test. They would | | | | is now a common standard. |
| simply download a computer data file and time | | | | |
| the whole process with a watch. The problem | | | | Written by Jamie Charlesten. |
| with this procedure was that it couldn't | | | | |