Average U.S. Broadband Speed: 3.8Mbps

[McGuywer]

Akamai just released their latest "State of the Internet Report,", which every quarter covers a number of topics including broadband penetration, broadband speeds, security, and more. It's of particular interest to our readers, as the company gathers the data from clients that have hit their 56,000-strong global content server network, tracking 465 million unique IP addresses from 234 countries. The data of course provides unique data on speed specifically.



In the United States, Akamai says that the average connection is now 3.8 Mbps, which places us twenty second among all tracked countries behind countries like Latvia and the Czech Republic. Despite faster DOCSIS 3.0 and fiber deployments in some markets, that average speed dropped 0.9 percent for the quarter, and 2.5 percent for the year according to the report.

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The US isn't that fast. They'r penetration is perhaps better but speeds not that better.
Perhaps the perception that the US is gigabytes faster than us, is a not that well thought of one.
As mentioned the mobile uptake that the US had, did make a difference but SA's mobile speed is at roughly 3.6Mbps.

What is worth mentioning is that most servers resides in California. So there connection to the servers should be and will be faster. I mean compare opening a local website to an international website.

 

[Positively Negative]

i like stories like this. Yes we are behind always bla bla bla but we are getting there.

i mean i never ever thought we would see uncapped being affordable before the end of 2010.did you?

 

[Polymathic]

The US is ranked 20 something in broadband speeds

 

[McGuywer]

Didn't think we would get uncapped at affordable price.
But it does help to keep pushing.
I read in another thread that we keep pushing the ISP's but we should push Telkom for local loop unbundling. That is the truth!