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Akamai has released its State of the Internet report for the first quarter of 2011, unleashing a metric crap ton of information about the Web. Among various other statistics, the 39-page report details the global proliferation and average speed of broadband Internet connections. Unsurprisingly, Internet has continued its explosive growth over the last few years with the number of unique iPv4 addresses growing 80% from 323 million in the first quarter of 2008 to 584 million in 2011.
The US represents the largest slice of that figure with more than 142 million unique IPv4 addresses -- nearly double China's second place figure of 73 million. Japan holds 41 million addresses, Germany has 34 million and France has 24 million. South Korea, the UK, Brazil, Italy and Spain completed the top ten list with 13 million to 22 million addresses.
Those standings will eventually change. While the US holds the most addresses, it has the lowest annual adoption rate out of the mentioned countries (10% versus 35% for South Korea, 28% for Italy, and 27% for China). We assume that's because most of the US population is already connected to the Internet.
In addition to having the largest IPv4 adoption rate, South Korea leads the world in average broadband speeds by a wide margin at 14.4Mb/s. Hong Kong, China is second with an average speed of 9.2Mb/s, Japan is third at 8.1Mb/s, the Netherlands follows with 7.5Mb/s, and Romania claimed fifth with 6.6Mb/s.
The US didn't even make the top ten list, having been forced to fourteenth with an average connection speed of 5.3Mb/s, behind the Czech Republic, Latvia, Switzerland, Belgium, Ireland and others. The US is notorious for ranking low on global speed standings, we're sure this won't come as a surprise to most of you.
Within the US, Delaware continues to offer the fastest broadband with an average of 7.5Mb/s, ahead of Rhode Island's 6.8Mb/s -- though it should be noted that they are the smallest states in the US. Wisconsin, New Hampshire, Connecticut Indiana, Maine, Virginia, California and Utah follow with 5.6Mb/s to 6.0Mb/s.
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USD. 24 per month for 40 kpbs ( INDONESIA ) ... claimed "BROADBAND SERVICE"
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Thats it im moving to South Korea :P
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Seraphim401 said:
Guest said:50 Mbps for 7 euro here in Romania =))
No way!I pay € 35 for the same speed here in The Netherlands.
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The second graph is really sorta ridiculous. Since when is Hong Kong a country? Most of those in the "top 10" are smaller then California. Show the average mbps for the whole country of China. I wonder what the average speeds are in San Fran, New York or LA, those would have been a better comparison or at least equal to the size of the ones in the "top ten". It's like saying America has the cheapest cars, slowest cars...but here's the top ten list: Italy, Munich, Crewe, etc...
Yes, the US isn't running fiber optic cable through out all of Alaska or Bayou's just yet. But since when do Eskimo's and Hill Billies need internet?
I have 40mbps service in Portland, OR, cost me 70ish, which is a lot faster then the "US average". But in a rural city, it is average.
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technochicken said:
I'm helping to pull that average down. I usually get 1.8 to 2.4 mb/s. We're upgrading to 12 mb/s soon though.
Maybe my math is off but you are usually getting 1.8-2.4 mb/s and you currently are on less than a 12Mbps connection??
Unless your line has a speed boost and you see those speed maybe for the first 10 second of the download something is wrong with your numbers son.
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I get 1 meg in coutryside UK
going uni and staying in center of Bristol, prob get Much faster there.
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My bad. If somebody can delete the above comment, the quote didn't work for some reason...
Anyways:
70/20 Mbps for $18, here in Bulgaria
i know, im in the '3rd world'....
Same thing here, except for about 15$...
So yeah, long live UTP :>
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"paying 70 dollars for 50/5 mbit no limits (because i dont live in a faggot country).I guess that leaves out Greece, France, and last but not least, Bulgaria.
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what is the country you are living?
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Lots of frustrated racists commented on this news (thankfully most have been deleted). Here in Romania I pay 12 euros for 50Mps/ at least 20 external so when I look at the chart I couldn`t be happier.
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I live in SK and I can tell you that the internet here is fast... Only if your accessing national sites. I get about 92mb/s up and down to Korean servers, but outside of the country its more like 2mb/s. I guess the internet here is great if your Korean... it kinda sucks for foreigners though.
I pay about $30USD a month (with no usage restrictions).
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35MB's down 7MB's up only 5% of the USA has better internet than me lol
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I pay 80$ a month for 1.6MB/s with a datacap of 450 MB.. It does renew every 24 hours... Satellite internet sucks b@ll$ here...
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My internet is 12 MBPS download and 1 MBPS upload. Apparently I'm doing pretty well. Wish I could upload faster, though. And we're only paying something like 47 a month for it. With a 15 dollar connection fee, but for that price it's not bad.
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DAOWAce said:
As per speedtest.net, my connection speed is 97% better than the rest of the US. My average national grade is 95% and my global is 93%.
That's depressing, considering people pay ridiculous prices for broadband compared to the price and speed of mine.
That broadband plan Obama created is way too far off. By the time everyone in the US has a decent broadband connection, 1Gbps will be available to people who can afford it. So sad.
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