Comments on: Akamai Data: Internet, Broadband Still Going & Growing

By: ASH693

ASH693 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:46:32 +0000

Right on ya Anis,

it’s a fiction that is hard to believe, the connections above 2Mb are rare ( i think 12% of all the “linked” folk)

add to that the ATI ,our Big Brother but still the rising rate of the subscribers is getting “high” that’s a fact,

we got a long path to walk (chill out haters :P).

By: Anis

Anis — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:11:17 +0000

These numbers are completely ridiculous.
I’m from Tunisia and I’ve never experienced such speeds. The best we can have is 1,5 Mb (in theory) for the public.

Add the fact that all internet connections pass trough a central agency (managed by the government like Iran), you can easely understand the state of internet connections are like 10 years ago in Europe

By: Syed Muhammad Shahbaz

Syed Muhammad Shahbaz — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:20:49 +0000

Dude actually the cost of establishing a giga bit speed internet connection is way too high and people in underdeveloped and developing cannot afford it. Its pointless for them it they establish an ISP for giga bits and do not find anyone interested in getting it at such high rates. Heck it will cost the general public way higher than minimum wage rate in the country.

By: donkey

donkey — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:33:59 +0000

Guys,
Network switches & systems go up gigabits speed this days, so why the hell are will still dwelling around kps – 2/12/15mbps ???
Can those responsible get this nonsense sorted out!!

Donkey

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:34:53 +0000

Hey paul good to know that you havent graduated yet,, cos if you would i dont think your reading would be so poor,, Akamai no where says its the entire internet report,, it clearly states the Akamai global report,, well i wont waste my time to make you understand the meaning of it :) and akamai delivers 25% of internet traffic, but its way higher than all the clowns in the business who tried to Mock Akamai’s Business plan,, thats why most of the companies went out the business when the internet bubble burst. I guess todays class is over for you son any doubts Reply to this let see how talented you are :P.

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:26:49 +0000

Man you cant be serious,, when talking about Akamai, you do know this data provieds a very large understanding of How, when and why, Internet performs better or suffers drastically because of which many MNC’s try to make thing better from their end or they go to Akamai, and i guess once you start handling 25% of worlds internet traffic you earn a little right to be Arrogant hahaha :) Well you wont understand that but still, its only a fool who can take knowledge as arrogance,, if you combine the matirx of Limelight , Level 3, CDNetworks, they dont come even near the the number what Akamai shows so i would say stop blogging like a fool and start reading more. take care man, Hope your employers are happy with you :)

By: Kailash

Kailash — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:02:37 +0000

The only company with halfway decent broadband in India is BSNL. Between 2004 and 2007 (when I was in India) I got consistently good service from BSNL on a DSL line.

Although slow to begin with (312 kbps), they changed to a 256k/2 MB shared line in ’05 that was pretty decent between 10pm and 5 am when everyone was asleep.

By: Oli

Oli — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:17:33 +0000

A 75Kbps (kilobits) downstream connection would give you a theoretical maximum of 9.3KB/s (kilobytes).

I’m not necessarily doubting what you say but if you *are* getting the units mixed up, there’s your explanation.

By: Kamran

Kamran — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:20:33 +0000

I am Kamran from Karachi, Pakistan.Here we got 1Mbps speed for just 600 per month.Our Cable system is awesome.
Usual download speed is 200K

By: okinawa

okinawa — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 10:17:09 +0000

Wow, Viva la Japan@!

By: techmadly

techmadly — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 05:17:28 +0000

but here the issue is not of copper cabling because they are providing connection through optical fibre. this is overall the system faults. and how can we expect the WiMAX based broadband because 3G is yet not stable .

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 02:16:20 +0000

Curious how this can possibly be accurate for the *entire* Internet. Akamai delivers only about 25% of Internet traffic, for a certain subset of customers that are skewed towards the enterprise. What about the other 75% of traffic – how can they know what’s going on in Limelight or Level3 or CDNetworks networks, or on the public Internet at large? How can they comment on *overall* trends when their observations are limited to the segment concentrations of their customers?

Besides, didn’t Akamai say traffic growth was slowing just a few months ago? (http://www.businessinsider.com/2008/7/akamai-q2-earnings-analysis)

This is nothing more than a PR stunt with some nice shiny graphs.

By: Syed Muhammad Shahbaz

Syed Muhammad Shahbaz — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 01:34:18 +0000

Hey Im from Pakistan and I’m on 512 Kbps atm. We have upto 2 Mbps speed for 3600 – 5000 PKR. Speed is awesome and I’m getting the full 62.4 kbps downloading speed. Hopefully, I’ll be switching to 2 Mbps connection next month. :)

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:35:31 +0000

That arrogant company should get their network together so everybody can actually get max. speeds on it before telling the world what the global state of broadband is. Apart from the amount of unique IP addresses, this data can hardly be taken serious. The top 10 of amount of connections that are 2 mbit/s or faster looks completely ridiculous anyway. But I’m glad to know that they have better internet in Tunisia, Monaco and Slovakia than many other countries like the Scandinavian ones.

They’ll know that everybody from bloggers to newssites blindly copies their reports everytime they release one though so it’s not hard to understand why they don’t give a hoot. What a joke.

By: cyberdoyle

cyberdoyle — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:52:41 +0000

Governments in all countries should take care of providing broadband, it is such an important utility for encouraging innovation and prosperity. If they leave it to the telcos it will never get done. We need fibre to the homes, it is cheaper and better than copper and intervention would make it happen.

By: gp

gp — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:51:26 +0000

what else can you expect from a bunch of lala ;-) ……….hahahahhahahahahahahha
Good one OM !!
Btw Airtel is also lala company …mittal …but somewhat better than reliance ……….But I also face the same issue of google being slow to open on airtel ……..I used 100 mbps link Singapore it was just amazing …..pity we dont have anything that close in india …….why cant some company invest in fiber here …..as its fastest growing telecom and broadband base ….maybe govt should invest give subsidize internet infrastructure here