Thread: Net connection: The top 10 countries

India has been ranked at a dismal 115th among 223 countries in terms of average Internet connection speeds. India has an average Internet connection speed of just 772 Kbps compared with the global average of 1.5 Mbps.

At the end of 2008, approximately 19 per cent Internet connections around the world were at speeds greater than 5 Mbps -- a 21 per cent increase over the average global connection speed at the end of 2007.

The number of unique IPs or Internet addresses from India grew 42.91 per cent year-on-year, to 2.63 million. Globally, the number of unique IPs grew 20 per cent. In terms of broadband penetration, India had 0.0001 broadband IPs per capita.

This is according to the State of the Internet report, a quarterly study by Akamai Technologies, the US-based Internet content distribution giant. The State of the Internet report tracks average connection speeds for countries around the world.

Source : rediff.com: Net connection: The top 10 countries

right.. that is indeed very disappointing..

Hi,

Well there no saving from this disgrace if the Govt continues to act the way they've so far,Am sure even in the next year we may have to face the same problems !

But however whats surprising is the Average speed ,at 772 its quite higher then I thought it would be !!

Anyways Hope atleast someone wakes up and does something bout this :001_huh:!!

Regards.

just do the survey on electricity, water distribution,roads etc then u will be more ashamed!!