Tuesday, September 07, 2010
[Google Fast Flip] The Top 10 Cities With the Best Broadband
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Top 10 Bandwidth Cities in the US, some may surprise you
The Top 10 Cities With the Best Broadband
By Stacey Higginbotham May. 25, 2010, 5:00am PDT No Comments The company behind the broadband speed testing site, Speedtest.net is ready to go beyond testing broadband quality and into the data game. Ookla, the three-year-old company based in Seattle that's behind the online speed service introduced a broadband index today that tabulates the results from the more than 1 million speed tests done each day around the world. The global broadband speed is 7.69 Mbps while the US speeds average out at 10.12 Mbps. Mike Apgar, co-founder and managing partner of Ookla, said the indexes will measure broadband speeds, ping times and jitter. His goal is to move the testing beyond the tech-savvy market (we use it!), so as to get a better sense of how broadband speeds really play out across the world. The FCC is encouraging consumers to use the sites (Ookla also runs a site that tests jitter and packet loss at pingtest.net) as part of its nationwide testing goals, and many of Ookla's ISP customers also offer the test to their customers and host Ookla's servers. That's actually most of Ookla's business, providing tests for the ISPs. The next plank of the business strategy is the index data. Ookla ...
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Top 10 Bandwidth Cities in the US, some may surprise you
The Top 10 Cities With the Best Broadband
By Stacey Higginbotham May. 25, 2010, 5:00am PDT No Comments The company behind the broadband speed testing site, Speedtest.net is ready to go beyond testing broadband quality and into the data game. Ookla, the three-year-old company based in Seattle that's behind the online speed service introduced a broadband index today that tabulates the results from the more than 1 million speed tests done each day around the world. The global broadband speed is 7.69 Mbps while the US speeds average out at 10.12 Mbps. Mike Apgar, co-founder and managing partner of Ookla, said the indexes will measure broadband speeds, ping times and jitter. His goal is to move the testing beyond the tech-savvy market (we use it!), so as to get a better sense of how broadband speeds really play out across the world. The FCC is encouraging consumers to use the sites (Ookla also runs a site that tests jitter and packet loss at pingtest.net) as part of its nationwide testing goals, and many of Ookla's ISP customers also offer the test to their customers and host Ookla's servers. That's actually most of Ookla's business, providing tests for the ISPs. The next plank of the business strategy is the index data. Ookla ...
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