Support for Pew Research

Russ Steele

I got this in the e-mail to day.

Dear friend of Pew Internet:

One of the mainstays of our work has been to report on broadband use in the United States. We have recently completed our newest phone poll on the subject and will be releasing a report in the coming months.

This year, we are hoping to add to our knowledge of the role of broadband connections in people's lives by trying to gather details about the speeds at which Americans are connecting to the internet. We have seen the rise of premium broadband services and packages and will be reporting on that based on the survey data we collected. But we would also like to gather data on the actual download and upload speeds internet users are experiencing.

So, we are asking people to help us by participating in a special effort called the "Broadband Census" project that is being overseen by Drew Clark, a telecommunications and technology journalist. The Web site is available at http://BroadbandCensus.com
<https://webmail.pewresearch.org/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://broadbandce
nsus.com/> .

If you are interesting in helping us, you can participate by going to the Web site and clicking the "Take the Census" button. (The direct address is http://www.broadbandcensus.com/census/form
<https://webmail.pewresearch.org/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.broadba
ndcensus.com/census/form> .) Once you are on the census page, you'll be asked to give some information about your broadband connection and then have your connection's speed tested.

This is a completely confidential test that does nothing to your computer or your connection.

If you have any questions about the project, feel free to contact us.

Thanks,
Lee Rainie
Director
Pew Internet & American Life Project