Is there an "idle" speed for the web?

i had Internet Exploreer 6 and recently upgraded to internet explorer 8 which is much faster. Although i need to download itunes and my internet connection is dial-up with a speed of 28-30 kbps . Does downloading this new browser help spped up the download...

For example, i live in europe, but how come i can open some pages really fast and others really slow ? My internet speed is around 5 mb. Can you tell me which defines the speed in which a page is loading ? How come when i open facebook is loads really...

My computer is very slow some times I think I have dial up. My internet is high speed with a 10mg speed. how can I speed up my internet. My laptop is the only one that is doing this. My wifes and the desk top is very fast. What could be wrong or what...

I'm slowly becoming desperate here, and don't know what to do. For a good while now, at my home, the internet has been awful. Web pages barely load if at all, I can't play any online games, but when I start a download, either by torrent or regular, the...

My friend just got a ticket and the police officer informed him the speed limit was 30, not 35, even though it appeared to be clearly a commercial street. Short of going to Los Angeles City Hall, and manually researching the maps etc, is there a site...

I have a Logitech HD 720P web camera that i sometimes use on Google+. The people i hang out with during a video chat session say my the image from my camera on their screen is moving in a fast forward motion, like jumping around and stuff. All their...

How do you determine and compare the speed of two web crawlers. Is it the number of pages that it can crawl in a given amount of time that decides speed?

I just want to find out a little bit more about web browsers because I want to use the fastest and the hippest web browser available for our PC... thank you!!!..

l have a broadband speed of 2.5mb but my web pages are very slow in opening, is there anything l can do to speed up the opening of the web pages