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Akamai. Which country has the fastest internet in the world.
Akamai report:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/259862003/State-of-the-Internet-Report-Q4-2014
most up to date IPv6 use
average connection speed
fastest average peak
highest speed mobile connections by region
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Well, aren't you just a bundle full of puppies and rainbows.
Well since MMOs are online and OP posted countries with the best online speeds...
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Explain exactly how you bundle rainbows...
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They are overall average speeds and peak average speeds.
Overall average speeds means taking all connections in the country, and averaging them.
Peak average speeds means testing the peak and averaging all the connections.
Why they do peak averages is because some countries have extremely fast internet, but a few rural areas might be dragging the whole average down. With peak average you don't take these into account so much.
Kinda a bogus statement. 95% of the MMOs can still be played with a 56Kbps modem. Anything past 1Mbps up speed (basically every DSL/cable connection) is sufficient enough to play 99.9% of the MMOs out there.
Fast internet speed is only an issue when you're downloading a lot of games (or torrentz, take your pick). My brother has an optic fiber connection to his house and downloaded Borderlands 2 from Steam in about 7 minutes. But that speed is not really influencing his ping to MMO servers compared to mine (30Mbps here but when I had 6Mpbs the ping was still about the same with US servers and local EU servers. only servers in Amsterdam - I'm Dutch - showed a bit more of ping difference)
Italy 5.6 mbps.
I think there is some issue with the test. Like they said its average speeds. This does not discriminate between business and personal. In a country like South Korea where the speeds have to meet a certain speed, they will be higher. In the United States we can choose our tier of service depending on our needs. Now to a company with a fleet of trucks, they probably are not going to opt for the 4G LTE phones. Similarly for a business that only needs to connect an ATM machine, they are probably not gonna get a 100 MB/s connection. Considering the differences in business in some countries, this will heavily affect their avg speeds.
So I would definetly take it with a grain of salt. In the US most places have access to 100 MB/s connections. That's pretty good and far more than necessary.
We do? It is?
I'd disagree.
I'd also say speed isn't the best metric. For instance - where I live... which I wouldn't call typical, but I also would say isn't rare.
I have currently 3Mb/sec speed with no cap. My employer pays $175/mo for that (lucky me). Options exist for a dedicated link up to 20Mb (for around $2k/mo) Before I had that, I had, from the same provider, 1Mb/sec access for about $75/mo. That's Microwave radio, which is our best option here in rural america, if you have a tower near and have direct line of sight to the tower. Latency and pings with this are pretty good, I usually get around 75-125ms.
We have 2 decent cellular 4G providers in the area. I can get upwards of 54Mb/sec on my phone. But the data cap is extremely low (2G/mo), and the speed varies greatly based on cellular traffic. Cellular also has a bit more latency involved with it, pings around 150-300ms. My work also pays for this (lucky me again), but if I go over the data cap it's not a good thing, and at $10/G isn't cheap either.
And there's 25Mb/sec satellite. It has various caps, with the top cap I think around 30G/mo. And it has a ping time around 1,200-2,000ms.
And I suppose you could still get AOL Dialup - which some people around here have, at 56k. And for checking email it works, although you can't really browse the web with that anymore (too many sights love to throw Flash and lots of huge graphics at you).
So yeah - if you look at it on the surface - I have some decent "speed" available to me. But the faster speeds aren't necessarily better options.
Hmm... I'm in Venezuela....
We're number 130!!! We're number 130!!!... wait... that's not something to celebrate...
At least we fared much better in mobile internet connections... now if I only we weren't so capped with them... my mobile internet is indeed rather fast in some cities (luckily where I live is one), but capped to 150 MB/month (yes, MB).
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Access to the speed isn't the same thing as access to quality service.
It isn't hard to imagine that 90%+ of the US population has access to 25Mb/sec satellite, so I conceed you are probably correct in that statement without digging far into fact checking - but I wouldn't consider that a viable or desirable internet choice. When you just consider speed you are lumping it in with DSL/Cable/FIOS/etc and saying it's all "equal" because it has a similar download speed and availability in a geographical area, and that none of the other qualities (such as data caps, latency, cost, etc) matter.
That was my point.
There are plenty of ways to manage the cost of servicing rural areas. After all, we made it a priority with electricty and telephone in the early 20th Century - so there is a model for it. I won't say that model is good or bad, just that it does exist, and it did manage to control costs to some degree.
I have 150Mb/s down and it's fast, but faster internet would surely be more fun. It still takes 30 minutes or so for a 20GB game to dowload. PS3 updates still take up to 5 minutes sometimes.
You probably mean megaBIT, Mb, I think. It seems unbelievable otherwise.