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I keep seeing stories about how the broadband subscribers in the U.S. pay more for less service. We might pay more, but our service seems to fall close to the
by smoyer 14y ago
I keep seeing stories about how the broadband subscribers in the U.S. pay more for less service. We might pay more, but our service seems to fall close to the average for the companies shown here.
Does anyone have numbers for Korea (South), Japan, etc?
- cataflam 14y agoThis is the average speed for the Netflix streams, not the average speed of the internet connections. So if their highest bitrate stream is 5 Mbps for example, that is the maximum you could see on those graphs. These ratings reflect the average performance of all Netflix streams on each ISPs network. The average is well below the peak performance due to many factors including the variety of encodes we use to deliver the TV shows and movies we carry as well as home Wi-Fi and the variety of devices our members use. Those factors cancel out when comparing across ISPs, so these relative rankings are a good indicator of the consistent performance typically experienced across all users on an ISP network.
- paul_odin 14y agoAkamai's State of the Internet report shows internet speeds worldwide: http://www.akamai.com/stateoftheinternet/ http://www.akamai.com/stateoftheinternet/ Average connection speed * USA - 7,195 kbps * South Korea - 14,626 kbps * Japan - 10,513 kbps Average peak connection speed * USA - 29,626 kbps * South Korea - 48,750 kbps * Japan - 42,172 kbps (I believe this is is per IP address and excludes Mobile traffic)