AllThingsD » U.S. download speed http://allthingsd.com Sun, 27 May 2012 01:54:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/logo-rss.jpg All Things Digital http://allthingsd.com/ 144 22 The Median U.S. Broadband Speed? Finland's Divided by 10. http://allthingsd.com/20080813/bbstudies/ http://allthingsd.com/20080813/bbstudies/#comments Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:59:11 +0000 John Paczkowski http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/?p=3175 An estimated 15 percent of Americans still use dial-up to connect to the Internet. And they might as well. Because according to a new study by the Communication Workers of America, the typical real-time Internet connection speed in the United States isn’t that much faster. CWA’s Speed Matters survey found the median download speed in the U.S. to be a mortifying 2.35 megabits per second.

Pathetic. In Japan the median download speed is 63.60Mbps. In South Korea it’s 49 mbps. For crying out loud, in Finland it’s 21.7Mbps.

How is it that the median download speed of the country that invented the Internet is this abysmal? No wonder it’s fallen to 15th place among industrialized nations in the percent of the population subscribing to broadband. No wonder broadband adoption slipped to a seven-year low in the second quarter of 2008.

]]> http://allthingsd.com/20080813/bbstudies/feed/ 4 The Median U.S. Broadband Speed? Finland's Divided by 10. http://allthingsd.com/20080813/bbstudies-2/ http://allthingsd.com/20080813/bbstudies-2/#comments Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:59:11 +0000 John Paczkowski http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/?p=3175 An estimated 15 percent of Americans still use dial-up to connect to the Internet. And they might as well. Because according to a new study by the Communication Workers of America, the typical real-time Internet connection speed in the United States isn’t that much faster. CWA’s Speed Matters survey found the median download speed in the U.S. to be a mortifying 2.35 megabits per second.

Pathetic. In Japan the median download speed is 63.60Mbps. In South Korea it’s 49 mbps. For crying out loud, in Finland it’s 21.7Mbps.

How is it that the median download speed of the country that invented the Internet is this abysmal? No wonder it’s fallen to 15th place among industrialized nations in the percent of the population subscribing to broadband. No wonder broadband adoption slipped to a seven-year low in the second quarter of 2008.

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