Sandy, Utah Tops US Cities For Broadband Speed 121
darthcamaro writes "If you want to live in the city with the fastest average broadband connection speed in the US, you have to move to Utah. According to Akamai's latest State of the Internet Report, Sandy, Utah is at the top of the list for US cities with the fastest average broadband speeds, with an average connection speed of 33,464 Kbps (33.5 Mbps). Overall in the US, the average broadband connection speed in the third quarter of 2009 came in at 3.9 Mbps, down by 2.4 percent on a year-over-year basis, but that's not a major cause for concern in Akamai's view. 'The overall year-over-year decline in the US average connection speed was relatively minor,' report author David Belson, director of market intelligence at Akamai Technologies said. 'The larger year-over-year sample base may have contributed to the decline, especially as mobile usage grows.'"
Re:Average is 33 megabits .... from who? (Score:1, Informative)
Sandy is part of utopia.net (http://www.utopianet.org/) which is fiber to home like fios.
Whoever came to that conclusion doesn't know shit (Score:5, Informative)
Sandy Utah has two ISPs, Qwest and Comcast plus the occasionally available WISP. Not a single ISP in the Sandy area offers speeds in excess of Comcasts standard 16Mbs high end package. It's absurd that some article lists the average as 33.3Mbs as I don't know a single area where that speed is available and I live in the heart of Sandy. There is Metro Ethernet available at the cost of multiple thousands but no one outside large business has it.
This apparent study of internet speeds is worthless and it's conclusions garbage.
Re:Nice in theory, but.. (Score:5, Informative)
I'm trying to figure out what part of Sandy has an average connection speed of 33.5 Mbps, as the article says. Sandy declined to join up with Utopia, and nobody else offers fiber optic that I'm aware of. Comcast's average subscription is most certainly not their 30Mbps nor 50Mbps offering (and even if it is, nobody actually gets that rated speed), Qwest's DSL doesn't go that fast, and... who else even *offers* internet service there?
What am I missing?
Maybe it's a typo for 3.35Mbps?
(I used to live in Sandy, my parents live there, and several of my friends live there. None of my friends know where this 33.5Mbps number came from either.)
That's wonderful news! Or, maybe not so much (Score:4, Informative)
So, according to this article, the US, the lone superpower now has at least 7 cities that have surpassed
the average Japanese or South Korean village in broadband speed.
Pour me some champagne.
Re:Meanwhile... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Meanwhile... (Score:4, Informative)
we can try to remember that Slashdot is an American site
In terms of ownership and editorial staff, yes, although not so much in terms of news coverage
and the majority of readers are American.
Last statistics I saw showed more than 50% non-US readers. The US made up the larges single block, but it was not an overall majority.
Re:Meanwhile... (Score:4, Informative)
Majority means more than 50%.
Alexa [alexa.com] reckons 47% of Slashdot visitors are from the USA.
Re:Meanwhile... (Score:4, Informative)
Majority means more than 50%.
Alexa [alexa.com] reckons 47% of Slashdot visitors are from the USA.
"The Alexa Toolbar, an application produced by Alexa Internet, is a Browser Helper Object for Internet Explorer on Microsoft Windows that is used by Alexa to measure website statistics." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexa_Toolbar [wikipedia.org]
Hmm, yeah I'd totally agree, using Alexa to determine the viewership of slashdot is 100% viable.
Re:Meanwhile... (Score:3, Informative)
No it doesn't. Majority means the highest percentage
Actually, no. That would be a plurality. A majority is a subset of a group that is more than half the group.