US ranks fourteenth in global Internet speed standings

[Matthew DeCarlo]

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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[Greg S]

Yay! I'm above average for the US at 6Mb/s. I could get up to 18Mb/s if I paid a premium though ($120/Month 250GB bandwidth).

 

[Technochicken]

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.

 

[Guest]

I'm paying for 25 mb/s and I usually get around 29 mb/s. Thanks for all the bandwidth guys.

 

[gwailo247]

Oh boy, here come the:

"I live in [insert name of 3rd world country] and I pay [insert cost commensurate with country's per capita income]."

 

[Guest]

130 yuan/month (around 20 USD/month) for 2 mb/s in China.

 

[killamoves]

15 Mb/s for $45 here in NYC.

 

[bchen88c]

15 Mbps/3 Mbps comcast in new hampshire. Price was something like $50 with basic cable but now it has skyrocketed to around $80 :O (both with taxes included)

 

[Guest]

Out here in the country in Aiken County, South Carolina, I average about 5.5 to 7.1.

Uh, that's KB/s. I'm on a dialup line

 

[Emin3nce]

Pretty sure Australia is the last on the list, behind the third world countries.

 

[Guest]

U$ 65.00 for 8 mb/s here in Brazil, Sao Paulo, without cap limitation (I can download as much as I want) lol

 

[Butch]

I average about 65-80 mbps on all major speed test sites. I'm using Comcast Business DOCSIS 3.0. It's about $150/mo but work pays for it so I'll take it. It's blazing fast but most sites I use for heavy d/l, like Steam, throttle to about 3 MB/s. Not sure what 3 MB/s translates to in mbps but I do know I can bring 5-6 GB games down pretty freaking fast...

 

[Guest]

$12 for 20Mbit/s here in Russia
And ISP hosts all the pirated movies accessible at 100Mbit/s

 

[Guest]

768kbps for 22 u$ here in costa rica very bad !

 

[Guest]

paying 70 dollars for 50/5 mbit no limits (because i dont live in a faggot country).

Feelsgoodman.jpeg

 

[Guest]

"$12 for 20Mbit/s here in Russia
And ISP hosts all the pirated movies accessible at 100Mbit/s"

In Soviet Russia, internet...
someone help?

 

[Guest]

In Soviet Russia, internet surfs you =]

 

[Guest]

"paying 70 dollars for 50/5 mbit no limits (because i dont live in a faggot country).
Feelsgoodman.jpeg"

what is the country you are living?

 

[Lokalaskurar]

butch said:
Not sure what 3 MB/s translates to in mbps but I do know I can bring 5-6 GB games down pretty freaking fast...

Well if you consider a byte being 8 bits, that rounds up to 24 Mbps. Not all bytes are 8 bit though. But the generalization works per say.

Depending on my location (wireless), I can get anywhere from 1 to 10 Mbps for $41 a month (peaking at 12 Mbps on Speedtest). My Internet-provider has a flexible rate.

But the real question isn't about what I'm paying or what I'm getting; 'is it worth it?' I'd say it is.

 

[Mister_K]

30Mbps line with VMedia in UK for £28.50 (not including Phone+TV, total £38.99). Max I got was around 4MBps (32.5Mbps) and was happy heh.

Glad to see Czech Republic high on the list although I am from Slovakia id prefer to see them up there But they still behind...

 

[Guest]

US is falling behind the world in many things. You can thank the Republicans in collusion with Bankers for your fantastic debt and rapidly increasing disparity.

Tax the poor to feed the rich! Bring back slavery.

 

[Guest]

50 Mbps for 7 euro here in Romania =))

 

[Guest]

70/20 Mbps for $18, here in Bulgaria
i know, im in the '3rd world'....

 

[grvalderrama]

I get 3 Mb/s, average download speed is 300 KB/s... so, what are you whinning for? lol

 

[Puiu]

Internet is dirt cheap in Romania and the connections are all above 20Mbps in cities (a bit lower in rural places).
I have 100/20 Mbps, national/international speeds, but i do get often over 20mbps for international connections, for just 12$ and i get a free 7.2Mbps 3G USB modem for free. ^_^