Pando: Average Worldwide Download Speed Is 580KBps - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 22 September 2011 / 2,794 Views
According to Gamasutra, Pando Networks conducted a study to test download speeds around the world. Pando Networks "surveyed over 27 million downloads across 20 million computers in 224 different countries." The average worldwide download speed is 580KBps, while the fastest average speed is over 2,000KBps.
South Korea outpaced the rest of the world with an average speed of 2,202KBps, followed by Romania with 1,909KBps, and 1,611KBps. The United States is just above the middle of the pack with an average speed of 616KBps. Germany averages 647KBps, Australia 348KBps and Congo has the slowest speeds at the abysmal 13KBps.
The study also breaks it down into cities and not surprising eight of the top ten cities are in South Korea, while Andover, Massachusetts and Bucharest, Romania are the other two cities with an average speed of 2,801KBps and 2,665KBps respectively. The slowest cities are "Algiers, Algeria at 56KBps followed by Itapema, Brazil at 61KBps and Santa Cruz, Bolivia at 62KBps."
Average speeds also varies depending on which Internet Service Provider (ISP) people were using. In the United States, Verizon provides the fastest speeds with an average of 1,056KBps. In Great Britain, Virgin Media is the fastest with an average speed of 612KBps, In South Korea Dacom Corp. provides the fastest speeds with an average of 5,151KBps.
Robert Levitan, CEO of Pando Networks said, "The disparities we found were striking. While, in general, developed economies outpaced the developing world in average download speeds, big names such as the US, UK, France, China and Canada were not even close to being the fastest. Instead, we saw high speeds in markets such as Eastern Europe where focus on infrastructural development and favorable geography promote a higher level of connectivity."
Straight from the home page of the official Pando Networks website. "Pando Networks improves the performance of online media delivery for games, video and software. Pando Networks’ software and web services interoperate with any http infrastructure or CDN service to provide highly scalable, cost-efficient, reliable, and secure content delivery."
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We barely have 100KBps... We live in the UK, in the country. Internet might be good in cities but seriously, UK needs to sort out the speeds in the country.
I barely scratch 1 Mbit.
That is just a pitiful amount.
We in Canada went from being the top of the world for internet, to the bottom of the barrel....
It sounds like most people have a pretty slow connection. Interesting.
Maybe you made the mistake because you are talking about 300 kilobytes per second and not kilobits. 300 kbytes/s are 2.4 Mbits and if you have a 3Mbit line this are the speeds you are usually dealing with.
300kbps are 0.3 Mbps 3000 kbps are 3mbps
300Kbps (3Mbs) over here. Used to have 100 Kbps (1Mb) like a year ago though. I know a guy who has a 512KB connection (0.5Mb) and another one who has a 256Kb one, so I guess I'm luckier than them....
But I still want more, I hate when I have to wait HOURS to download a simple 500MB-1GB demo (because my speed almost never works at 100% speed, specially on PS3).
I still remember when it took me over 21 hours to download the God of War III demo when I still had a 1MB connection (the demo was like 2.5GB and my internet speed didn't work anywhere near 100Kbps/1Mb while I was downloading it, lol)
you know 300kb does not equal 3Mb right? approximately 1000kb equal to 1mb. Unless you typed it wrong.
With the current bandwith, there is no way games can go fully digital. Once a game is released, we probably wont able to play 2 weeks after the release date. Plus internet provider going to start putting caps on how much bandwith you use. Good luck downloading a 40gb game, it might take you 4 months to do it if you have a cap.
you know 300kb does not equal 3Mb right? approximately 1000kb equal to 1mb. Unless you typed it wrong.
With the current bandwith, there is no way games can go fully digital. Once a game is released, we probably wont able to play 2 weeks after the release date. Plus internet provider going to start putting caps on how much bandwith you use. Good luck downloading a 40gb game, it might take you 4 months to do it if you have a cap.
many american towns dont have good high speed access.... i would guesstimate in the next 10 years the adverage download speed will be 100MB/s
my download is about 15 Mb/s but most gamers understand that upload speed is just as important.
Wow, I'm at 100 KBps right now... even with 500 I would be very happy!
South Korea and those Eastern European countries all have brand new infrastructure, thus the high speed connections. USA and other countries need to get on that if they want to compete this next century. Proven fact that faster internet = more educated people.
