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2 edits | Study based on www.speedtest.net data The study was based on data gleaned from »www.speedtest.net/global.php web site where you can do your own drill down analysis.
How good and comprehensive this data is can be debated, since the collected data is a self-selection process and only reflects those who have gone to the site to do a speed test. That isn't generally a valid way to do statistical analysis, though some verifiable data is better than none.
If you can come up with the scratch, you can submit a query here to get your own customized reports:
»www.speedtest.net/datainquiry.php
»www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/news/media/Pres···2009.htm
Using more than 24 million records from actual broadband speed tests conducted by users around the world in May 2008 and from May to July 2009 through www.speedtest.net, the research team calculated statistical averages for each country of several key performance parameters used to determine the quality of a broadband connection.
These parameters were grouped into three major categories: download and upload throughput, and latency. The Broadband Quality Score (BQS) for each country was determined using a formula that weighted each category according to the quality requirements of a set of popular applications now and in the future.
Typical applications for today include web browsing, social networking, music downloads, basic video streaming and video chatting, standard definition IPTV, and enterprise-class home offices.
Future applications include consumer telepresence for communications, healthcare and education, high-quality video file sharing and streaming, high-definition IPTV, cinema-quality live event broadcasts and advanced home automation. --
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| US vs EU not far apart If you look at the United States and compare the numbers to the EU and then treat separate US states the same as separate countries in the EU, there is a close comparison:
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1 edit | I wonder if the total number of broadband users has any impact on the quality? Other than China, which is surprisingly low on the total number of broadband subscribers by percentage of their population, no other country in the world comes close to the US in the total number of broadband users.
How many different ISP's are available in the Netherlands, Sweden, or Denmark? We probably have more DOCSIS 3.0 Comcast subscribers than all of those countries' broadband users combined. If we were to use just FiOS and Comcast as our benchmarking results, we would be doing much better.
By kicking out the bottom half of every nation's broadband users, I bet most of these other top performing countries would see nearly the same stats. However, I bet the US would skyrocket upwards if we were to only use the best 40 million internet connections. We simply have more choices and a much wider variance from top to bottom. In other words, the first 2.5 million Dutch broadband users are probably nearly identical in performance to the rest of the 2.5 million or so users. That is not likely here in the US, where surely the top 40 million enjoy much better speeds and latency than the bottom 40 million "broadband" users.
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co···et_users | |
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