Thursday, February 28, 2008

Comparison of worldwide broadband speeds

On checking my broadband speed recently on http://www.zdnet.com.au/broadband/speedtest.htm it was disappointing to note that Australia is ranked at No 24 in the world with an average speed just over 6000kb/s. One wonders why other countries are able to achieve much high download speeds. Even the United States of America creeps in only two places ahead of Australia. Here's hoping our new Prime Minister, Mr Rudd is able to do something about this disgusting performance. He will need to do much more than just set up 'committees' ( he has averaged one new committee for every four days his government has been in office so far). What about some actual decisions Mr Rudd?


Rank Country Attempts Fastest Slowest Median Average
1 Liberia 5 49,279kbps 1,108kbps 46,427kbps 37,440kbps
2 Macau 22 100,530kbps 224kbps 12,433kbps 36,372kbps
3 Korea, 569 105,304kbps 241kbps 21,262kbps 27,725kbps
4 Sweden 14,016 248,020kbps 100kbps 16,242kbps 18,971kbps
5 Hong Kong
6 Estonia
7 Japan
8 Finland
9 Luxembourg 14,016 248,020kbps 100kbps 16,242kbps 18,971kbps
10 Denmark
11 Netherlands
12 Switzerland
13 Romania
14 France
15 Norway
16 Belgium
17 Greece
18 Slovenia
19 Czech Republic
20 Singapore
21 Germany
22 United States 23,915 172,931kbps 14kbps 5,362kbps 6,711kbps
23 Portugal
24 Australia 383,511 234,156kbps 1kbps 5,361kbps 6,062kbps
25 Austria

4 comments:

Sana said...

Great post...You definitely did a good job of comparing of all broadband clearly. I’m anxious to read some of your other posts.


Professional Writing Services

Anonymous said...

Its your gratefulness for affixing and giving out your blog with all of us ! It is very polished and proficient . I really appreciated it .

Blackberry Phone Apps

Mishti said...

Thank you very much for this write up
Home Construction

Nishtha said...

Hi, thanks for this post. It is exactly what i was looking for. Look forward to reading more .
directory submission