United States download speeds go up by 10Mbps in just a year (on average)

[Victorious Secret]

 

 

 

Rejoice Americans, for your average speeds are entirely embarrassing in the grand scheme of things anymore. I still think you have a long way to go, hopefully recent rulings help push the tide of cheap, faster internet for all, but int he mean time this is a great direction to be headed in. 

 

Now...how about forcing mobile carriers to get with the program and stop being stingy with their data allowances. But one step at a time. 

 

 

The most recent average US download speed from Ookla Speedtest for March 2014, is 33.9Mbps (these numbers are Broadband only, no Mobile tests are included).  In April 2014, the average speed was just 23.9Mbps. This jump in speed moves the United States to 27th in average download speed out of 199 counties; globally the average download speed is 22.3Mbps.

 

The US, often considered behind in internet speed, is now pulling ahead of several major countries such as: United Kingdom 30.18Mbps, Germany 29.95Mbps, Spain 28.28Mbps, Russia 27.7Mbps and Ireland 27.29Mbps.  However, the US at 27th out of 199 countries is still well behind countries such as South Korea 84.31Mbps and Japan 60.49Mbps.

Much of the growth has come in new areas of the US. In October 2014, Washington was not even in the top 10 states for download speed, and now has the fastest average speed. Additionally, North Dakota and Utah joined Washington in the top 10 fastest states.

Top 5 cities with the fastest average speed in March 2015:

1. Kansas City, MO 96.66Mbps
2. Austin, TX 74.65Mbps
3. Huntington Beach, CA 58.2Mbps
4. New York, NY 53.3Mbps
5. North Hollywood, CA 53.04Mbps

The top 5 cities with the fastest average speed in October 2014 were:

1. Kansas City, MO 68.59Mbps
2. Austin, TX 68.27Mbps
3. Huntington Beach, CA 50.52Mbps
4. Flushing, NY 49.83Mbps
5. New York, NY 48.24Mbps

The top 5 major ISPs in the US in March 2015 are (note: Ookla did not include Google Fiber in this list):

1. Verizon FiOS 43.2Mbps
2. Comcast 42.7Mbps
3. Cox 41.75Mbps
4. Time Warner Cable 40.35Mbps
5. Charter Communications 39.7Mbps

The top 5 major ISPs in the US in 2014 were:

1. Google Fiber 230.69Mbps
2. Verizon FIOS 42.27Mbps
3. Cox 39.42Mbps
4. Comcast 38.70Mbps
5. Charter Communications 38.45Mbps

 

 

 

http://www.cordcuttersnews.com/average-united-states-download-speed-jumps-10mbps-in-just-one-year-to-33-9mbps/

[Arwanell]

you bastards

and I'm just sitting here with 5Mb download (well, thats not that bad), but frikin 0.7Mb upload speed

[Brainless906]

Lol, I love Google fiber just being so far ahead of everyone else. sigh.

[lukky211111]

im in the united states and im getting around 2 to 3mb for my download .

[TheKDub]

Sitting here with 60Mb/s down 12Mb/s up....

 

So that will become 70Mb/s down 12+Mb/s up?

[Trik'Stari]

Here I am with 10Mbps waiting for hardline to download, at 37% and have another 5 hours to go.

 

Thanks alot bastard ISP's, I hope you get aids from that expensive hooker you know doubt will visit during your next "business seminar"

[Chillstice]

Sitting here with 60Mb/s down 12Mb/s up....

 

So that will become 70Mb/s down 12+Mb/s up?

No, it won't change your speed, the increase comes from calculating the average from last year to this year. It's a statistic.

[ionbasa]

For those of you wondering why Time Warner Cable just jumped on the 2015 list:

There finally getting runaround to upgrading to pure Switched Digital Video rather than analog tv channels. Thus more bandwidth has become available for other services (such as DOCSIS Internet).

 

Because of this, TWC standard package was 15/1, but after the upgrade everyone is being upgraded to 50/5.  Some areas (LA metropolitan), are also getting 300Mbps down over DOCSIS 3.0, which is actually quite impressive.

 

I believe FIOS has also been dropping their rates also. I think they dropped their rate by $10 since last year for their 50/50 plan.

[Guest Strangerbob]

I love how in Poor Eastern EU and Evil Russia you have 300 mbit connections available in mass, with a monthly fee of below or around 20 eur now. 

And 100 mbit connections are available for 10 years already for even less montly fee.

[Trik'Stari]

I love how in Poor Eastern EU and Evil Russia you have 300 mbit connections available in mass, with a monthly fee of below or around 20 eur.

Sad that former communist nations are now better at capitalism than the "home" of capitalism.

[Notree]

 I upgraded yesterday. It cost less then my 30mb down/5mb up connection. Cant wait for google fiber to never come to Canada lol http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4233587863

[AlexGoesHigh]

meanwhile in south america...

[atoff]

My cost has gone up too, so not much rejoicing here.  I was paying $75ish/m for 100Mbit/s, now $110/m from the same provider for the same. 

[TheGamingBarrel]

It is a start for the US Consumer I guess... UK internet, at least in the nice populated area I live in is just fine...

 

I win, but probably pay more (£50 a month)

[Guest Strangerbob]

Sad that former communist nations are now better at capitalism than the "home" of capitalism.

 

Communism isnt a bad idea. It just didnt work for our species.

 

It would work perfectly for some other sentient species in the universe... for example - someone who is cold blooded and doesnt need to eat many times, every single day, therefore they wouldnt have such evolutionary baggage as "greed".

 

But not for us. Capitalism isnt perfect for us either, but at least it works, while it does.

[Trik'Stari]

Communism isnt a bad idea. It just didnt work for our species.

 

It would work perfectly for some other sentient species in the universe... for example - someone who is cold blooded and doesnt need to eat many times, every single day, therefore they wouldnt have such evolutionary baggage as "greed".

 

But not for us. Capitalism isnt perfect for us either, but at least it works, while it does.

I think communism is simply limited by the fact that everyone can't be as rich as they want to be, although there's a good chance that still wouldn't be enough.

 

I just wish our government would stop preventing businesses from crashing, all businesses need to be able to fail.

[d3sl91]

I think communism is simply limited by the fact that everyone can't be as rich as they want to be, although there's a good chance that still wouldn't be enough.

 

I just wish our government would stop preventing businesses from crashing, all businesses need to be able to fail.

Totally. I think communism is a grand idea....on paper. Just as long as we are, at our core, pretty greedy and selfish, it just won't work very well. 

 

I wonder, if these tests are not accurate though. Most non-techies have no idea what speed internet they even have, and as long as they can "play netflix and youtube at the same time" they are happy. Unfortunately, these are also the market most of our companies sell to, since they will just mindlessly buy whatever the sales rep says they should on the phone. So, Many people who are paying exorbitant $$ on crappy internet may have never done a speed test.

 

I just got back from 2 weeks in Florida. I was staying in a lower-income area, where the internet was expensive but not very good. (that 15/4 internet would drop to 5/1 every evening because the node was shared). This is sad, since I was literally 4 miles from NASA, so it's not like I was in the boonies. But our greedy telecom organizations seem to not care that certain areas are under-developed technologically. 

I'd much rather see my friends get solid 25Mbps internet versus me have 500Mbps+ available to me in the city. 

 

[Orblivion]

What a surprise, the number 1 city both times happens to be the first city to get Google Fiber.

[soaringchicken]

YEAH...STRAYA.......

[tedjani]

the power of fiber

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

Almost a civilized country now ...

[Doobeedoo]

you bastards

and I'm just sitting here with 5Mb download (well, thats not that bad), but frikin 0.7Mb upload speed

I had same, till today, got 30/5. At least some upgrade.

[Darkman]

Hey motherfuckers.

Still waiting for decent internet

[Doobeedoo]

I can't believe that infrastructure is that expensive (such shit) and that we can't have excellent internet connection speed in higher populated areas these days. I mean I'm from EU and here where I live nothing much has changed in past 10 years as far as internet tech.

[ErickS89]

Don't care, moving wherever google fiber is after school!