UK Above Worldwide Average Download Speeds
South Korea wins title of fastest, while city of Algiers is the slowest.
No matter how great a package we sign up for, it seems sluggish and slow internet still catches us out every now and again. However, it seems we're not exactly bad off, as a recent study has shown that the UK's download speeds are currently above the international average.
According to a recent study conducted by game delivery company Pando Networks, the average global download speed is 580KBps. The UK's average download speed clocks in at 599KBps. Based on 27 million downloads by 20 million computers in 224 countries from January through June 2011, the study aims to find the best and worst countries for downloading online games and as well as providing a comprehensive look at worldwide data accessibility.
So, we know we're above the global average, but how did we do in the grand scheme of things? Alright, is probably the best way to answer that. Though 599KBps puts us no where near the slowest cities, which includes Algiers, Algeria at 56KBps; Itapema, Brazil at 61KBps; or Santa Cruz, Bolivia at 62KBps, we couldn't crack the top five when pitted against South Korea (a blazing 2,202KBps), which was number one, or Sweden, Denmark, Ukraine and Romania, which all clocked in at over 1,000KBps.
The good news is that we're not too far behind the U.S., which measured in at 616KBps, and we're ahead of Canada, which is just below the global average at 579KBps. Australians have it pretty bad with 348KBps, as do the Chinese, with 245KBps.
"The disparities we found were striking. While, in general, developed economies outpaced the developing world in average download speeds, big names such as the US, UK, France, China and Canada were not even close to being the fastest," said Robert Levitan, CEO of Pando Networks.
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The UK isn't bad compared with under-developed nations but is begind most developed nations. Not much to be proud of given the influence BT is supposed to have on the world stage.
As the UK's biggest ISP perhaps they (BT) prefer to invest in the highly profitable ventures and pay little attention to serving the nation for which it was founded and leave the the wholesale development upt to firm like Virgin.
The UK isn't bad compared with under-developed nations but is begind most developed nations. Not much to be proud of given the influence BT is supposed to have on the world stage.As the UK's biggest ISP perhaps they (BT) prefer to invest in the highly profitable ventures and pay little attention to serving the nation for which it was founded and leave the the wholesale development upt to firm like Virgin.
thumbs upped! i definetely agree! why is this article comparing the UK to MICs and LEDCs??
excuse me but that is false in the uk
most people have 8meg broadband (1 megabyte a second)
Im on 12 on adsl, if i lived a few doors down i would be on 50, cause you need fibre to get that speed
most people like bt are laxing there download limits because they are doing FTTC which is making the load easier for them to manage
excuse me but that is false in the uk
most people have 8meg broadband (1 megabyte a second)
Im on 12 on adsl, if i lived a few doors down i would be on 50, cause you need fibre to get that speed
most people like bt are laxing there download limits because they are doing FTTC which is making the load easier for them to manage
you may have a MAXIMUM possible connection of 8Mbps but still thats just 1 megabytes per second (8megabits in megabytes), even then you are limited by your copper wire connection.
An 8Mbps connection is most likely to top out at 6.5 to 7Mbps, and even then, you're probably going to be limited by the time of day. I should point out that instead of an ideal world of having 1 byte = 8 bits, over DSL you should be thinking 10 bits, therefore even with an 8Mbps connection, you'd probably get a max of 800KB/s.
My Be: connection seems to connect at about 16Mbps and I can get 1.7-1.8MB/s download speeds out of it virtually all the time. It's connections like this that probably hide the deficiencies of BT's ADSLMax.
I think the biggest problem with the UK is the VAST amount of sunk costs in our telephony infrastructure.
The majority of people who live in the country side are running on 30-50 year old technology, with poor copper wiring (which then gets a lot of signal noise).
My house is about 1/4 mile from my local exchange and I struggle to get 2Mbps on a good day ... I have NO upgrade options .. virgin don't even provide services where I live ...
Virgin keep throwing me leaflets about being "in my area"... sure, for DSL, but not the rest of your services.