Internet Connection Speeds on the Rise in Q4, IPv6 Transition Picking Up Speed, Akamai Reports
Global internet connection speeds continued to rise in Q4, with the global average connection speed rising 26 percent year over year to 7.0 Mbps, Akamai said Wednesday in a report. South Korea had the highest average connection speed globally at…
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26.1 Mbps, and Washington, D.C., had the highest average U.S. speed at 26.7 Mbps, Akamai said. Global mobile connection speeds in Q4 ranged from 26.8 Mbps in the U.K. to 2.9 Mbps in Venezuela, Akamai said. Thirty countries reported an average mobile connection speed of at least 10 Mbps, and 58 had an average speed of at least 4 Mbps, Akamai said. The IPv6 transition appeared to pick up speed in Q4, with Akamai finding that 47 percent of content requests to its servers came from IPv6 addresses. Meanwhile, the number of unique IPv4 addresses that connected to Akamai decreased 0.4 percent year over year to 807 million.