Maximize the speed potential of your internet connection. We examined two alternatives that claim to boost your Web access speed without costing you an arm and a leg. Browser accelerators attempt to turbocharge your Web browser by adding a smarter cache and by trying to anticipate where you'll go next on the Web. Modem bonders, as their name suggests, harness a pair of modems to give you a double-barrel pipe to your Internet service provider. Of the two approaches, modem bonders yielded better results. At best, they may double your Internet access speed. Webrocket boosts Internet download speeds by carefully and intelligently tweaking various 'hidden' Windows settings to provide a substantially faster Internet experience.
Analog connections suffer from busy signals, dropped connections and the need to dial up each time, but they are the cheapest type of Internet connection available. High bit-rate DSL allows a very high speed connection over the basic copper line instead of the fiber line.
The speed at which you connect to the Internet is determined by a number of factors.