How Fast is Broadband in Your State? Check This Map

The interactive map linked below lists the average speed of the internet in the United States by state. A similar map in 2009 revealed the average speed in the United States to be only 4.8Mbps. This new map shows that circumstances have greatly improved in the United States in terms of internet speeds. Data for the map is from Speedtest.net. -Via Gizmodo

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Yeah. I hate AT&T, too.

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.66 Mb/sec. I hate you, AT&T.

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That says the average in the US is 32 Mb/second, while Akamai says the US average is only 11 Mb/second. Akamai's interactive map, which includes the rest of the world, is at http://www.akamai.com/stateoftheinternet/soti-visualizations.html#stoi-map .

My guess is that Speedtest.net summarizes the number of people who went to Speedtest.net, while Akamai measures the CDN traffic, so Speedtest gets more traffic from people who just got new bandwidth and want to verify that it really is zippy fast.

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Kentucky is next to last. No wonder I never have any free time.

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