I know many people are probably wondering how one can be able to increase the speed in that percentage. Well, to answer you, researchers have come up with a way to do so.
The team from MIT, Caltech, Harvard, and other universities in Europe devised a way of boosting the performance of wireless networks by up to 10 times — without increasing transmission power, adding more base stations, or using more wireless spectrum. This is expected to have huge repercussions on the performance of LTE and WiFi networks. This is how they did it.
Through the process of
coded TCP, blocks of packets are clumped together and then transformed into algebraic equations that describe the packets. If part of the message is lost, the receiver can solve the equation to derive the missing data. The process of solving the equations is simple and linear, meaning it doesn't require much processing on behalf of the router or smartphone or even laptop.
The test showed huge improvements that saw campus WiFi (2% packet loss) jumped from 1Mbps to 16Mbps. On a fast-moving train (5% packet loss), the connection speed jumped from 0.5Mbps to 13.5Mbps. This method suits wireless networks since Wireless networks are in desperate need for forward error correction (FEC), and that's exactly what coded TCP provides.
(http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Terry-640x289.png)
A graph that illustrates the effects of packet loss on total throughput of a network link
credit:extremetech
If implemented, this innovation will have a huge impact on the way we browse and if you think of factors that relate to internet and browsing and how they will respond.
ref:extremetech