Akamai sees internet speeds climb, Asia still dominates broadband arms race

[rob50]

Akamai's annual State of the Internet report is loaded with all sorts of interesting, if not terribly surprising, tidbits about both broad and narrowband connections around the globe. The big news? The world-wide average connection speed has jumped 23-percent from last year, to 2.1Mbps. Speeds in the good ol' US-of-A were up 15-percent for an average of 5.3Mbps, though we still languish in 14th place on the list of fastest countries. As expected, Asia continues to dominate the speed race, with 61 cities in Japan alone making the top 100 list. If you want the fastest connections the States have to offer you'll have to head for San Jose or Riverside in CA or the home of the Wu (that's Staten Island for those of you not in the know), which all tied with an average 7.8Mbps connection. Check out the PR after the break and click the more coverage link to download some charts.

 

[loveofpari]

oh asia is still progressing in context of the internet speed . The net speed here is very slow the hihest internet speed here is just 3.6 mbs in my country. Hope it increases soon.

 

[chanx]

oh asia is still progressing in context of the internet speed . The net speed here is very slow the hihest internet speed here is just 3.6 mbs in my country. Hope it increases soon.

where r u frm? In India we get speed upto 31 Mbps in 3G connections.