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UK is in the Internet slow lane, says report
THE UK is not even in the top 100 for urban broadband speeds, while South Korea is number one in the world, according to the web content firm Akamai.
Following the inevitable logic of the Eurovision song contest, the UK is getting nil point while the home of Abba, Sweden, is the top European country with its city of Umea coming in at number 18 with an average maximum broadband connection speed of 9.6Mbps.
The latest Akamai state of the Internet report says that Asian countries lead the way in broadband and that 59 Japanese cities feature in the top 100 for average measured connection speeds.
As the UK government has now dumped plans for supporting broadband roll out, the cities of London, Birmingham and Manchester can expect to trail the rest of the world for years to come.
David Belson, Akamai's director of market intelligence said, "countries like South Korea have benefited from a number of factors, such as population density and proactive government support and funding for broadband deployment, which has given them their position at the top."
Masan in South Korea is Akamai's fastest online city, averaging a maximum connection speed of 40.5Mbps. Unsurprisingly, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Japan took the top three positions in the top 10 list of countries, followed by six European countries, at an average of 15Mbps. The US was placed eighth with an average speed of 16Mbps. µ
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......I still see a lot of folks using those old USB ADSL modems of old.
Iirc they only worked up to around 2Mbps.
Anyway loving my 16Mbps BT connection in the centre of old rural Norwich.
When you factor in the actual use speeds rather than the 'theoretical' advertised maximum speeds that are used by ISPs, the playing field skews quite a bit from what is reported.
The average actual use speed of my "8 meg" dsl at my house in London is 2.4 mbps. The actual use speed of my "1.5 mbps" dsl at my house in Texas is 400 kps.
Neither one is even close to half of what seed the ISPs are claiming, and this is a regular occurrence across the board for all ISPs.
if the internet drove the military or financial institutions then you can be sure the uk government would make it the best in the world.
but because it doesnt, they dont give a dam