Ferrari speed or turtle speed?

Your host provider should have a much faster connection, although your visitors to your web site will often connect via a modem.

T1 connection was considered a fast connection in the early day but today, connection speeds are much faster.

1 byte = 8 bits (and that's the number of bits used to transport one character). Low speed communication modems can transport from about 14 000 to 56 000 bits per second (14 to 56 kilobytes per second). That is somewhere between 2000 and 7000 characters per second, or about 1 to 5 pages of written text.

One kilobit (Kb) is 1024 bits. One megabit (Mb) is 1024 kilobits. One gigabit (Gb) is 1024 megabits.

Surf some other web sites on their servers, before you sign up a contract with any hosting provider and try to get a good feeling about their network speed. Also compare the other sites against yours, to see if it looks like you have the same needs.