You're Right - Our Internet is Slow
Nov 18, 2015
Think our internet speed here is slow? You're right. We currently rank 44th in the world - a drop of 3 places since the last report in mid 2014 by US cloud service provider Akamai Technologies on the State of the Internet . Even New Zealand is now ahead of us.
With the slow roll out of the NBN, less than 500,000 households are connected, we needn't hold our breath waiting for an increase. Netflix is due to officially launch soon in Australia, but will our internet service be up to it?? Want to know where you should go to watch a decently streamed movie? Check out table below
| Top ten average global connection speeds | ||
| Rank | Country | Speed (Mbps) |
| 1 | South Korea | 25.3 |
| 2 | Hong Kong | 16.3 |
| 3 | Japan | 15.0 |
| 4 | Switzerland | 14.5 |
| 5 | Sweden | 14.1 |
| 6 | Netherlands | 14.0 |
| 7 | Ireland | 13.9 |
| 8 | Latvia | 13.4 |
| 9 | Czech Republic | 12.3 |
| 10 | Singapore | 12.2 |
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