IIS Windows 7 Ultimate

Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Services, formerly called Internet Information Server) is a set of Internet-based services for servers created by Microsoft to be used with Microsoft Windows. It is the world's second most popular web server only after the Apache HTTP Server. The servers provide services for File Transfer Protocol, SMTP for e-mail and HTTP/HTTPS for web server.
In this article we will explain you how to install The Microsoft IIS Webserver on your computer. The IIS Server is NOT available for Microsoft Windows 7 Home edition as they say the Home edition was not meant for networking. So you must have the Proffessional edition or the Ultimate edition of Windows 7 installed on your computer for installing the IIS Webserver. You will also be needing the Windows 7 DVD during this install. Now, Follow the steps below:
1. Place the Windows 7 Ultimate or Windows 7 Proffessional DVD into your DVD-Rom Drive.
2. Goto Start > Control Panel > Programs
3. From the dialog box that opens, click on Turn Windows features on or off. You can check this detailed guide on how to add or remove Windows features in Windows 7.
4. This brings another dialog box that contains a list of many Windows related services
5. Check the box for 'Internet Information Services (IIS)' leaving all the default installation settings intact. If you would like to install additional services, then expand each option and select them.
6. Once IIS is installed on your machine you can view your home page in a web browser by typing 'http://localhost' (you can substitute 'localhost' for the name of your computer) into the address bar of your web browser. If you have not placed your web site into the default directory you should now be looking at the IIS documentation.
7. Service and Configuration management for your IIS web server
8. You might like to install IIS Tuner in order to configure your IIS server installation for optimum performance.
9. Now, Install the Web development options for Visual Studio 2012 RC

The cost of connectivity

Forget about the Olympics.... USA first city/provider... rank 30 Can't wait for Google Fiber !!! http://oti.newamerica.net/publications/policy/the_cost_of_connectivity

Rank	City	ISP	Download Speed	Upload Speed	Price (USD/PPP)	Network Technology	Data Cap (GB)
1	Riga	Balti-Com	20	5	25.43	Cable	None
2	Seoul	KT	50	50	32.74	Fiber	None
3	Paris	Free	100	50	34.47	Fiber	None
4	Seoul	LGplus	100	100	35.78†	Fiber	None
5	Paris	SFR	25	--	36.67†	ADSL	None
6	Paris	Bouygues Telecom	20	0.512	36.67	ADSL	None
7	Paris	Orange	20	--	37.53	ADSL	None
8	Copenhagen	Telia	20	1	40.36†	DSL	None
9	London	Virgin	30	--	43.03†	Fiber	None
10	Paris	Darty	100	5	43.56†	Fiber	None
11	Amsterdam	T-Mobile	20	1	44.64†	DSL	--
12	Berlin	TeleColumbus	16	1	44.93	Cable	None
13	London	BT	16	--	45.45	DSL	None
14	Riga	Lattelecom	20	20	45.66	Fiber	None
15	Hong Kong	City Telecom Limited	500	20	46.72	Fiber	None
…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…
30	Lafayette	AT&T*	6	1	65.60	DSL	250
32	Chattanooga	AT&T*	6	1	68.44	DSL	250
33	San Francisco	AT&T*	6	1	73.94	DSL	250
34	Los Angeles	Verizon*	7	--	79.99†	DSL	None
38	San Francisco	Comcast	20	4	89.97	Cable	300
39(t)	New York	RCN	25	2	89.99†	Cable	None
39(t)	Washington DC	RCN	25	2	89.99†	Cable	None
41	Washington DC	Verizon*	15	5	89.99†	DSL	None
43	Los Angeles	TimeWarner	10	1	89.99	Cable	None
46	Bristol	BVU	16	3	96.40	Fiber	None
47	Washington DC	Comcast	20	--	99.00	Cable	300
48	Bristol	Charter	15	3	99.97†	Cable	100
49	Chattanooga	Comcast	20	4	99.99	Cable	300
50	Lafayette	LUS	15	15	103.89	Fiber	1024
51	Bristol	CenturyLink*	10	0.7	107.26†	DSL	250
52	New York	Time Warner	15	0.78	112.69	Cable	None
53	San Francisco	Astound	10	1	124.00	Fiber	100
55	Chattanooga	EPB	30	30	129.51	Fiber	None**
56	Lafayette	Cox	15	1.5	133.96	Cable	200
57	New York	Verizon	10	2	154.98†	Fiber	None