Average Internet Connection Speeds on a Decline

[Heputese]

i'm from trinidad in the caribbean and i have 2Mbs down...and the jump to 4Mbs is gap i can't make...so i hardly ever take digital download games cause thats like a whole day with no gaming and praying for the download to hurry up....

 

[wiyosaya]

Interesting that for the US, this somehow ranks as news.

 

[hoofhearted]

Blame the USA ISPs for throttles and caps and such (especially wireless). Other countries seem to regulate this better. In the US, they are milking us until our nipples pop off.

 

[rebel1280]

[citation][nom]wiyosaya[/nom]Interesting that for the US, this somehow ranks as news.[/citation]
First world problems, feels good having them (not saying we don't have major issues that need addressing but every once in a while we need a breather from all the freaking depressing stuff to talk about)

 

[guderiancol]

690 gtx review here http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-690-review/1

 

[DRosencraft]

Yeah, you've got to keep in mind what people are actually willing to pay for too. I get an advertised 15Mbps download at home, but if I wanted to shell out a couple hundred dollars more a month, I could get above the 100Mbps mark. Unfortunately I don't know too many people willing to dish out that much cash for internet. So, most stick to the cheapest option that still gets the job done. Unless you live in my city (which is home to some 250,000 people) where until just last year your only option was Comcast or the insane pricing of internet by satellite.

 

[Guest]

I'm averaging 25/26 Mbps on a regular basis here in Tx.

 

[Friis]

I got a 30/30 mbit connection, and it is the lowest speed I can get from my ISP, the fastest connection from my ISP is 90/90, the fastest connection in Denmark I have seen is a 250/250 but that cost $176,26 each month.

on my 30/30 mbit that it is "suposed" to be, I actually get 31/31 mbit on speedtest

 

[techtre2003]

I don't know if our speeds have decreased, but we've had a lot of outages lately. Every time I call Mediacom about this they say one of their DNS servers are down. Overloading the servers maybe?

 

[__-_-_-__]

1gbps here.

 

[Northwestern]

[citation][nom]trumpeter1994[/nom]I live in a suburb off Kansas City, and time warner only gives me 1.5mbps down and 300kbps up... It's "broadband" and it pings well but theres people out in the middle of nowhere getting better speeds than me.... At this point I'm just holding off until google fiber since KC is it's test city.[/citation]
I'm in the same vicinity (Olathe to be exact). I have AT&T and around 1.5mbps down when I should be getting double that. I'm damn glad to be in Kansas so I will have a chance at fiber optic networks.

 

[Chainzsaw]

Rocking a 1Mbit U/D connection. LOL!

Lucky bastards with your fast connections.....

 

[kronos_cornelius]

I have 20Mpb However, usually the servers I contact are slower and even high definition video does not seem to need that much.

The US has a tough time getting to the top because there are 3rd world states in the Union. If you just pick the first world state (NY, CA, TX) you would find their are number one (IMO)

 

[eddieroolz]

A mere 5Mbps speed for US & Canada? Wow.

I guess moving from Japan was not the best idea with regards to internet speed...

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]kronos_cornelius[/nom]I have 20Mpb However, usually the servers I contact are slower and even high definition video does not seem to need that much.The US has a tough time getting to the top because there are 3rd world states in the Union. If you just pick the first world state (NY, CA, TX) you would find their are number one (IMO)[/citation]

Maybe number one in the USA, but nowhere in the USA can touch some of the speeds of some foreign countries, except maybe Google's experimental fiber optic 1Gb/s connections in Kansas or where ever they are.

 

[madooo12]

I think the reason is that many people in china and such places have got internet connections, slow ones

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]madooo12[/nom]I think the reason is that many people in china and such places have got internet connections, slow ones[/citation]

Most people in the USA have slow (that's a very subjective term, but I'll use it here anyway) internet connections too.

 

[wiyosaya]

[citation][nom]rebel1280[/nom]First world problems, feels good having them (not saying we don't have major issues that need addressing but every once in a while we need a breather from all the freaking depressing stuff to talk about)[/citation]
Well, I see I was not clear in my initial post. What I meant was that many in the US already know that all ISPs either want to or are reducing bandwidth and charging more money for the reduced bandwidth - so since we already know that, here in the US, is this article really news? To me, it seems kind of like saying some apples are red, and expecting everyone you tell that to to be surprised that some apples are red.

 

[f-14]

the united states is a world of it's own, when they say USA they should just nix that and go state by state. i'm pretty sure even with california's bankruptcy for the last 15 years and all the earthquakes they would out rank the world. california is bigger than all of korea, japan.
hong kong is a city in china, not a country, even the chinese in the gobi desert don't all have internet let alone 1mb/s

Hong Kong is a city located in China that has a government completely different from China. It's not a country per se but it's like one.

Hong Kong[note 3] (Chinese: 香港) is one of two Special Administrative Regions (SARs) of the People's Republic of China (PRC), the other being Macau.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong

 

[f-14]

forgot to add if you are going to throw hong kong in then paris, london, new york, tokyo, moscow, los angels should all be thrown in there also as their own countries measuring point.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska
Alaska is the largest state in the United States in land area at 586,412 square miles (1,518,800 km2)

HongKong With a land mass of 1,104 km2 (426 sq mi)

 

[USHypertraxx]

[citation][nom]hardcore_gamer[/nom]Download games from steam etc.[/citation]
Steam only uses slow servers. 20mbit is the max ive seen so far. Download Games on NEWSGROUPS servers 1000mbit .

 

[Guest]

Not long ago I read article that stated some interesting things (important for me and my country, hehe). It said based on desktop internet speeds measured from the average time to load a web page, Slovakia turned up fastest with 3,3 seconds. Hell yeah

 

[mschlenker]

I live 45 min from LA and can only get 1.5M DSL and that only became avail about 6 yrs ago.

 

[K2N hater]

Statistics without proper methodology fail to portrait the right picture. There's no point with wasting money on crazy bandwidth plans when the cap barely changes.

 

[livebriand]

In my area, I can get 768kbps ATT DSL or up to 105mbps Comcast cable internet. Really? I currently have 15mbps comcast internet, which actually provides my rated speed. Also, if I got a smartphone, if it were 3G, I'd have a slower than avg connection, even though for what you can do on one it simply doesn't matter that much (data caps anyone?).