Akamai: Average U.S. Broadband Speed Hits 10 Mbps Wednesday Apr 23 2014 14:35 EDT Akamai's latest State of the Internet report notes that average United States Internet speeds have just bumped past the 10 Mbps mark -- largely due to faster DOCSIS 3.0 cable upgrades. While that's a 25% bump over last year, it's still only enough to put the United States in tenth place among all countries worldwide. If it makes you feel any better, most of those countries are much smaller, and the U.S. is second in terms of originating network attack traffic. Virginia has the fastest average Internet speed among all states at 14.4 Mbps, while Delaware leads the country with the percentage of users operating at speeds faster than 4 Mbps (95%). Despite Boston still being a hold out for Verizon FiOS, Massachussets ranks first in terms of the percentage of their citizens above 10 Mbps (57%). According to Akamai, 34% of U.S. Internet users connected at speeds above 10 Mbps during fourth quarter, up 2.1% from last quarter and up 56% from the fourth quarter of 2012. The full report is worth a read, and offers data on everything from attack traffic statistics to IPv6 adoption. |
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Let me fix that...According to Akamai, 34% of U.S. Internet users connected at subscribed to speeds above 10 Mbps during fourth quarter, up 2.1% from last quarter and up 56% from the fourth quarter of 2012 | |
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