The bottom ranking states were Wyoming (379 Kbps), Hawaii (378 Kbps) and New Mexico (322Kbps), twice as slow as top ranked Nevada.

To find the nation’s best ISPs, PCMag used its custom-designed SurfSpeed application, which pulls pages from several popular Web sites to measure actual Internet surfing speed. The study looked at over 17,000 unique IP addresses.

Verizon’s FiOS fiber-optic connections are the fastest overall service, and Cablevision’s Optimum Online is the fastest cable ISP in the United States.

Cable connections are 47 percent faster than DSLs. Cablevision’s Optimum Online tops the list, with an average nationwide SurfSpeed of 839 Kbps. Sixty-one percent of users said they were satisfied with the service.

Even the slowest cable service provider (Earthlink, averaging 565 Kbps) was faster than some DSL providers, from CenturyTel at 520 Kbps down to Alltell’s puny 357. FrontierNet is the fastest DSL provider in the nation, averaging surf speeds of 724 Kbps. Only 27 percent of DSL users said they were satisfied with the service.

 In October The Christian Science Monitor made the announcement that it was ending its daily print format to move online in April of 2009.

 Ziff Davis says the final print issue of PCMag will be published in January 2009. The PCMag Digital Network attracts more than seven million unique monthly visitors, which is ten times the circulation of the print publication.

 "Moving our flagship property to an all-digital format is the final step in an evolutionary process that has been playing out over the last seven years," stated Jason Young, CEO of Ziff Davis Media.

 "Since 2000, online has been the focal point where technology buyers get their information and technology marketers are directing their dollars to drive demand and build their brands."

 Lance Ulanoff, Editor-in-Chief of the PCMag Digital Network said in an open letter to readers on PCMag.com that deciding to abandon the print edition of the magazine was not an easy one.

 "The reality is that the ever-growing expense of print and delivery was turning the creation of a physical product into an untenable business proposition."