The World's Fastest Internet

I love to watch Korean's drama. From there I see a lot of the technologies and gadget that has been shown in the drama. It's like they promote their technologies or gadget through drama that can be seen by people around the world. Their marketing is very good as KPop and Korean Drama is very popular among the people in the world. 

From the technologies they shown, I always thought that Korea is the best technologies country.. so it means of course they also must have the best network connection in the world. 

After do a some research in the internet, my thought is true...

That's according to a new study from content delivery service Pando Networks that sampled some 35petabytes of data from 27 million downloads and 224 countries. The service found that South Korea is top in the world in terms of download speed, averaging 17.62 Mbps.

Romania has the second fastest Internet speeds on the planet, clocking in at 15.27 Mbps, and a trio of Eastern European countries round out the top five, Bulgaria, Lithuania and Latvia. The United States musters a very pedestrian 4.93 Mbps — good for 26th in the world — while China, home to the world's largest Internet population, manages a dismal 1.96 Mbps.

The slowest Internet, according to the study, is in the Congo, with an average of just 13 KBps, a speed that would make even a 1990s dial-up Internet user cringe. Most of the world's slowest countries on Pando's list are located in Africa, where broadband access is sparse and mobile is often the most prevalent point of access for users. However, we suspect that the data from some countries may have suffered from too small a sample size for an accurate reading.

If you want the fastest Internet in the United States, head to Andover, Mass., the only American city to crack the top 10. Andover residents are downloading at a very speedy average of 22.41 Mbps. That pales in comparison to speeds in Seocho, South Korea, though, the fastest city on Earth at 33.5 Mbps.

Pando also sliced up the data by ISP, gathering data on 18,017 of them. The fastest in the U.S. is Verizon Internet Services, which offers users average downloads that are 153 Kilobytes per second faster than the next closest ISP on the list (Comcast). Those speeds are still almost five times slower the average connection offered by Dacom Corp. in South Korea, which takes the cake as the world's fastest ISP by average download speed.

Pando provided Mashable with the infographic below illustrating some of the key findings in the report. The company also created an interactive map showing all of the findings.

Worldwide Download speed

So how about Malaysia? What do you think.. hehehe

As published in the report State of the Internet by Akamai Technologies in 2014, the fastest average download data rate was measured at 25.3 Mbit/s in South Korea.

Malaysia falls under rank 38. Not bad but we need to improve to compete with our neighbor Singapore which is have a good speed of connection.

Resources:
The Akamai State of the Internet Report
http://mashable.com/2011/09/21/fastest-download-speeds-infographic/