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  • The State Of The Internet [InfoGraphic]

    The State Of The Internet [InfoGraphic]

    Every quarter, Akamai takes a look at global internet connection speeds, attack traffic, network connectivity and more. They take the data from the latest State of the Internet reportand visualized it in infographic form.

    The info obtained from this quarters report is fairly interesting actually. The United States lead the way with the most new IP addresses, even though China had the highest overall percentage change. The unique addresses gained in the top 10 countries actually represents 67% of the overall IP addresses gained!

    The other big thing they test is global average connection speed. They checked the top 100 and found that the Asia Pacific region held the highest number of spots. The United States and Canada came in second with 24 of them. Over all the internet connection speed is up 19% over this time last year.

    They also had the information for the highest average connection speed. They produced the results for the top 10 highest average speeds with the percentage change. South Korea leads the way with their Zerg rush of a 17.5 Mbps which is a 28% increase over last year. The United States has the 10th highest on this list at 5.8 Mbps with an average growth.

    The United States definitely has the technology to make their internet the fastest in the world, the problem has always been infrastructure. All of these other countries on the speed list are smaller than Texas. So you can imagine how much money we’d have to spend to get ourselves up to their level.

  • Britain Getting Faster Internet Thanks To BT

    Britain could be seeing faster Internet coming their way courtesy of BT.

    The Telegraph is reporting that BT has concluded a trial run in Cornwall that offered high-speed fiber broadband to any home or business. They hope to make the technology, and speeds, available to the entire country by Spring of next year.

    The current high-speed product is called “BT Infinity,” which upgraded the connection between a local telephone exchange and street telephone. The new process will upgrade the copper wiring between houses and street phones increasing the speeds.

    BT makes the hefty claim that their new service has “the potential to transform the UK broadband landscape.” They will be able to offer speeds of 300Mbps to anywhere in BT’s fiber network area.

    Those that want the service will have to pony up the upgrade cost for the new hardware. BT is also upscaling their existing broadband infrastructure so that those on BT Infinity will get 80Mbit/s instead of 40Mbit/s.

    BT is currently upgrading its national broadband network and claims that two-thirds of the UK will have “superfast broadband” by 2014. With the help of government money, they can make that number rise to 90 percent.

    The UK is investing £630 million in public money so that Britain will have “the best broadband network in Europe.”