Gamers Nexus: "An analytical network performance and benchmarking firm -- funded in part by Intel -- recently released a study including the fastest and slowest average 'download speeds' in the US for 2011, getting down to city granularities. Here's a map we've created with the top fastest cities in the US for average download rates."
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Lots of Non U.S. citizens bragging about how fast their ISP service is in what ever country they are in but be aware of a few facts before patting yourselves on the back.
1. The United States has over 300 million citizens which is more than any country except India, China, Russia!
2. Over 95% of the homes are Internet ready with maybe only South Korea having a higher number.
3. The average American has 1.7 mobile broadband devices and that is quickly reaching 2 mobile Internet devices per person which is higher than any country.
4. The United States has the largest FREE WiFi network in the world
5. Our Military uses more broadband than most countries, plus the amount of broadband our U.S. based companies use is also more than most countries.
6. Our Internet is the most reliable and we consume over 50% of the worlds Data!
So yes the U.S. has lower speeds "on Average" but we have way more traffic and devices connected to the Internet than many countries combined.
The U.S. does have Fios which is like 50mb down and that's the fastest speed i know of for consumers.
Over all it's good that the world has great Internet with South Korea having the Best as the Government mandated it's service but again S.K. doesn't have half the Internet traffic as the U.S.
i'm getting 9Mbps throughput here in the uk and more once my line gets upgraded to the 120mb package.
Seriously i was getting 800Kbps throughput atleast 6 years ago, you guys are only getting this now!!
I feel bad for you son
In the inner area of the Twin Cities, there was a small but inexpensive broadband company who couldn't get their advertisements aired because Comcast refused to let them.
Cable is not a constant nor predictable rate. But yes, in short, the US has pretty terrible ISPs and infrastructure.
It goes with being the first -- we now have the oldest infrastructure because we were the first to fully implement it. Shame we can't keep up, really.
for the people that dont know 8 mb is 1 MB. Now after I DL 25 gb in 24 hours time. I do get throttled for a few days.
this is wow internet in the lake michigan states
Is that what I actually get? Hell no! I can't tell if TWC is throttling me or if the wires are shite, but I probably get around 800KB/s.
When I used to live in Austin, though, I averaged 2MB/s. It was so good that I almost want to move back there...
Plus, the chart is average broadband speeds which includes the dozens of smaller budget companies that are slow compared to the giants like Verizon/Comcast. However even then most just go with the lowest plan since they charge you an arm, a leg, and your first born for faster speeds.
Sometimes it's even fewer choices than that, and God help you if you just want internet without phone and television jammed on as useless vestiges.
We have more people and far more Internet traffic than you guys do in the U.k.. Which will MAYBE only be surpassed by China (and it's 1 Billion population) as that country advances. India has a Billion people but they are advancing much much slower than China!
United Kingdom = 62 million people
United States = 313 million people
Now if i added another 251 million people to the U.K. network i GUARANTEE you your speeds would go down a lot.
The United States network is pretty dam good for the amount of people and devices connected to it and the sheer amount of traffic we consume.
But have a friend in Jackson MS with Comcast and it is freaking awesome!
What do you mean that isnt much??
I can download at 9Mbps which is around the 100mb mark
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9megabytes per second is my through put (actual download speed)
http://www.zon.pt/pacotes/P...
http://www.meo.pt/4g/Docume...
UK isn't too bad. Though, most of the times ISP are gaining customers based on the 'advertised' speed. Not the one you'll actually get. Then they get complaints, and well..
And i feel sad for america
(Lol I payed $29.99 for only 150Kb/s (That's 1.5Mbps). It was a dark time for me)
And yeah, I wanted Verizon down here too.
50Mbps or 6.25MB/s
Usually was round 47Mbps though :) really good service, just expensive :(
I suppose 1.2Mb/s is still slow compared to other people huh? (Even with crappy TWC)
Whatever it's only thirty bucks a month (Is that expensive compared to other countries?) with the ability to dl half a Tb in a month
My current is about 7-11Mbps would convert to $26 a month unlimited download