Masters of faster – How quick is your broadband?
With more households now wired for broadband Internet connections, you may be curious just to know who has the fastest link to the Net, or, to borrow a term from the 1990s, the quickest ramp to the information superhighway.
In the United States, the title of fastest download average connection speed goes to tiny Rhode Island, with a speed of 15.46 megabits per second. Ironically, the largest state, Alaska, has the slowest average connections at just 3.03 mbps.
Nevada checks in with an 8.57 mbps average and our neighboring states come up at:
California, 11.03
Arizona, 9.39
Utah, 7.92
Idaho, 5.08
Oregon, 10.24
The average download speed for Las Vegas customers is 7.76 mbps. Carson City has the fastest average speed in Nevada with 13.23.
All the data and mapping, including top cities in every state and a global breakdown of every country is available starting today at NetIndex.com, a service of Ookla, the company that runs SpeedTest.net. The information comes from self-tests by computer users worldwide. The company has hundreds of servers to test connection speed and quality. The data is presented live, on a rolling 30-day average.
For the record, the fastest broadband connection on the planet today is found in Seoul, South Korea, at 31.67 mbps. South Korea as a nation has an average speed of 31.38.
I'll have more about NetIndex.com in my Sunday column.
