Hey sharky, I don't really take a liking to just linking someone to data, but until I have a moment to investigate this a bit further,
here's a link for you to start with. Please post what you find out, I will do so myself when I get a minute, may be tonight yet. I enjoy learning the same .
mudmanc4, thanks for the link! I actually have that link as a favorite/bookmark and have "played" with it on my end. I have been trying to see what works best for high performance.
I am as much concerned with download speed as I am with web site download speed. I am looking for instantaneousnous (is that even a word...?

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Anyhow, at testmy.net my current download speed is...
::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Download Connection is:: 20056 Kbps about 20.1 Mbps (tested with 102391 kB)
Download Speed is:: 2448 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2009/03/14 - 10:00pm
Bottom Line:: 350X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 0.42 sec
Tested from a 102391 kB file and took 41.822 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 245.44 % faster than the average for host (verizon.net)
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-JOG5SYEI4
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7