Akamai: Global Average Broadband Speeds Up By 25%, U.S. Up 29% To 6.7 Mbps

Globally, the speed for broadband connections is steadily on the rise: according to Akamai's Q1 2012?State of the Internet report, it's now at 2.6Mbps, compared to 2.3Mbps in the last quarter, and a rise of 25% on a year ago and a reversal of the 14% decline of last quarter. South Korea continues to remain the connection king, with an average connection speed of 15.7Mbps. The U.S., meanwhile, doesn't make it into the top-10 countries (it's ranked 12th) but at least it's speeding up: it is now at 6.7Mbps, up by 29% on last year and 17% from the previous quarter. But as broadband continues to improve, so do attacks. Akamai notes in its study that attack traffic is on the rise, concentrating in particular regions and ports, with Asia Pacific, led by China, accounting for 42 percent of attack traffic originating from Asia Pacific; and the top 10 ports for attack traffic accounting for 77% of all attacks (up from 62% last quarter).

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