Numerous Web sites are available that will test your Internet data communications speed. You can find a good one at www.speedtest.net. (If that site is no longer active, Google or Bing “What is my Internet speed?” to find another speed-testing site. Use it.)

a. While connected to your university’s network, go to Speedtest.net and test your speed against servers in Seattle, New York City, and Atlanta. Compute your average upload and download speeds.

b. Run the Speedtest.net test again from your home or a public wireless site. Compute your average upload and download speeds. If you are performing this test at home, are you getting the performance you are paying for?

c. Contact a friend or relative in another state. Ask him or her to run the Speedtest.net test against those same three cities.

d. Compare the results in parts

a, b, and

c. What conclusion, if any, can you make from these tests?