what factors effact internet performance?

Question

What is meant by performance?
How can performance be measured?
Why is it important to measure performance?
What factors affect the performance of a complex large-scale network such as The Internet? Which factors are more-significant? Which ones can lead to problems

Answer 1

Here is a site where you can test performance. There are lots of links to info about the details of what that test means.

http://myvoipspeed.visualware.com/speedtest.html