Net bandwidth is interesting to measure and there are quite a few products out there that do it well. However, a lot of people are simply interested in measuring the speed at which they can perform the most common activity on the internet, Web surfing. Surfing speed is not only a function of bandwidth, but also server response time, PC processor availability and speed, RAM, and so on. PCMag.com released a free tool that measures your web browsing speed (by downloading and rendering pages from popular websites, and then deriving an average speed) and gives you a number that you can compare to other SurfSpeed users dynamically. SurfSpeed is NOT a bandwidth meter, it's a real world surfing speedometer. It's a fun tool.