Comments on: State of the Internet: The broadband future is faster, but still unevenly distributed http://gigaom.com/2013/01/22/state-of-the-internet-the-broadband-future-is-faster-but-still-unevenly-distributed/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:47:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Richard Bennett http://gigaom.com/2013/01/22/state-of-the-internet-the-broadband-future-is-faster-but-still-unevenly-distributed/#comment-1308529 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 06:15:53 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=603663#comment-1308529 Sorry, Garry, but your guess is incorrect. Akamai’s Average Peak Connection speed is the average of the peak rates observed for all IP addresses in a region. They look at all of Delaware, not just the northern third.

]]> By: Garry W http://gigaom.com/2013/01/22/state-of-the-internet-the-broadband-future-is-faster-but-still-unevenly-distributed/#comment-1308321 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:20:47 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=603663#comment-1308321 Mr. Bennett, the ranking for Delaware being number 5 only shows the upper 1/3 of the state. The lower 2/3′s of the state does not even come close to the speeds shown. Myself being a resident have talked to many other people about the access of internet service and it is in places not available or are limited to <3mbps, some people limited to dial-up(ouch).

]]> By: Richard Bennett http://gigaom.com/2013/01/22/state-of-the-internet-the-broadband-future-is-faster-but-still-unevenly-distributed/#comment-1303005 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 03:48:15 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=603663#comment-1303005 Stacey, it’s important to read the Akamai report carefully if you want to make claims about the speed of American broadband networks. The “average connection speed” they report is well below the average speeds reported by the FCC’s SamKnows studies as well as the Ookla reports. This is because it’s the streaming rate from Akamai servers that are serving up rate-limited SD and pseudo-HD video streams for the most part, and they even say that average speeds don’t represent infrastructure capacity: “In contrast to the average connection speed, the average *peak( connection speed is more representative of Internet connection capacity.”

So look at the charts of average peak speeds and you’ll see that the US figure is 29.6 Mbps rather than the average average speed of 7.2 Megs. Average peak also shows that the 10 fastest areas of the world are:

1 Hong Kong 54.1
2 South Korea 48.8
3 Washington, DC 42.3
4 Japan 42.2
5 Delaware 39.3
6 Vermont 38.8
7 Latvia 37.5
8 Romania 37.4
9 New Hampshire 37.1
10 Massachusetts 36.0

This isn’t a completely fair ranking since it mixes countries, states, and cities, but for all practical purposes Hong Kong is a city rather than a country.

]]> By: Flux Research http://gigaom.com/2013/01/22/state-of-the-internet-the-broadband-future-is-faster-but-still-unevenly-distributed/#comment-1302970 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:33:22 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=603663#comment-1302970 If the FCC would step in and stop big telecoms from blocking municipal broadband via lawsuits and in-the-pocket state legislators, we’d already have more access to broadband. North Carolina being a prime example.

]]> By: Richard Bennett http://gigaom.com/2013/01/22/state-of-the-internet-the-broadband-future-is-faster-but-still-unevenly-distributed/#comment-1302887 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:40:11 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=603663#comment-1302887 According to Netflix, Google’s Kansas City Gigglenet streams at 2.55 Mbps, Verizon at 2.19, and cable companies stream at the following rates:

Comcast: 2.17
Charter: 2.17
Cablevision: 2.15
Mediacom: 2.14
Time Warner Cable: 2.12
Brighthouse: 2.12
Cox: 2.07

The streaming rates for the national networks aren’t significantly different now that they all have DOCSIS 3 (or FTTH in Verizon’s case.) Google’s KC numbers are nice, of course, but that’s just one town.

To get really low speeds for cable you would need to look at the muni nets that are still running DOCSIS versions 1.1 and 2.

]]> By: Richard Bennett http://gigaom.com/2013/01/22/state-of-the-internet-the-broadband-future-is-faster-but-still-unevenly-distributed/#comment-1302860 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:49:13 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=603663#comment-1302860 That’s an awfully childish reply, Mr. Mitchell, with the added virtue of being false. Facts are facts, and those of us who make predictions for a living like to be proven right.

]]> By: Christopher Mitchell http://gigaom.com/2013/01/22/state-of-the-internet-the-broadband-future-is-faster-but-still-unevenly-distributed/#comment-1302662 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:43:01 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=603663#comment-1302662 Here is your analysis of TWC’s improvement: they are still lagging far behind Comcast and cannot compete with FTTH networks. As Netflix data shows, Time Warner Cable may be one of the biggest cable companies but its networks are slower than most national cable companies.

]]> By: Christopher Mitchell http://gigaom.com/2013/01/22/state-of-the-internet-the-broadband-future-is-faster-but-still-unevenly-distributed/#comment-1302658 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:40:57 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=603663#comment-1302658 By one measure. This is the probably the most optimistic of the international comparisons and likely mixes business connections with residential. But yes, if I were working directly or indirectly for the private telecommunications industry, I would write what you just did.

]]> By: Phil Simon  http://gigaom.com/2013/01/22/state-of-the-internet-the-broadband-future-is-faster-but-still-unevenly-distributed/#comment-1302651 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:25:42 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=603663#comment-1302651 Bigger pipes mean bigger data.

]]> By: Richard Bennett http://gigaom.com/2013/01/22/state-of-the-internet-the-broadband-future-is-faster-but-still-unevenly-distributed/#comment-1302491 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 07:07:52 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=603663#comment-1302491 As I predicted, the US is now in the top ten (tied for 8th) and four of the nations above us are city-states rather than real countries.

Don’t tell Crawford, she’ll have a heart attack.

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