XXXXXX

US ranks 26th in new broadband index

Hexagon_777 · 2010-05-25 06:08:24

South Korea has the fastest home Internet service in the world, with a downstream speed 100 times faster than the average in Sudan, the operator of Speedtest.net reported on a new Web site that compiles results from consumers running its online test. When South Koreans tested their wired broadband connections over the past 30 days, they found an average downstream speed of 34.14M bps (bits per second), according to the Net Index, which was introduced on Tuesday by Ookla, the creator of Speedtest. That was several times the worldwide average of 7.67M bps and 100 times as fast as the 340K bps downstream speed in Sudan, the lowest average out of 152 ranked countries.IDG News ServiceThe above is only an excerpt. You can read the full article here.I am rather surprised to see that eight out of the top ten countries with the fastest internet connection are in Europe. South Korea and Japan being in the top ten was obvious, though. Anyway, I posted this in System Wars since certain people love to cite slow internet connections as being a barrier to the likes of streaming games or even downloading them. Now is your chance to use the data provided to argue either for or against streaming and/or downloading games.