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To: yard_man who wrote (3594)	6/26/1997 9:54:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	of 13594

Dow Jones Newswires -- June 26, 1997 interactive3.wsj.com "CompuServe Svc Has Fastest Download Time - Magazine LITTLETON, Colo. (Dow Jones)--CompuServe Corp. (CSRV) operates the best-performing national Internet backbone according to independent measurements of national Internet backbones by Boardwatch Magazine and Keynote Systems Inc. In a press release, Boardwatch said relatively unknown networks may provide the best value for Internet users based on the study, which will be published in its July issue. The magazine named Savvis Communications the best value on the Internet based on price and performance. The study measured the time it took to download a 50 kilobyte web page using a 56 kilobits per second modem. Measurements were taken from 27 cities every fifteen minutes over a 30-day period from April 20 to May 20. The average download time for the Internet providers, which represents 1.7 million measurements of 29 of the leading national Internet backbones studied, was 9.928 seconds. Boardwatch said the top five performance times were CompuServe with an overall download time of 1.543 seconds; GridNet with a time of 2.949 seconds; AGIS with a time of 3.267 seconds; UUNET with a time of 3.473 seconds; and SAVVIS with a time of 4.274 seconds. Other performance times include AT&T Corp.'s (T) AT&T WorldNet with a download time of 4.921 seconds; Sprint Corp.'s (FON) Sprint with a time of 7.464 seconds; and MCI Communications Corp.'s (MCIC) internetMCI with a time of 9.851 seconds. Keynote Systems, San Mateo, Calif., develops software measurement agents. Boardwatch Magazine is a monthly trade publication." - A reason why so many CompuServe/Sprynet users hate the idea of being folded into inferior AOL? Regards

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