| Moving from cable, or even worse, a modem | | | | Top Countries - Upload |
| connection, to broadband...it's really something out of | | | | 1. Lithuania 8.08Mbps |
| this world, at least according to most switchers. | | | | 2. Japan 7.49Mbps |
| Obviously, when thousands of people say something, | | | | 3. Bulgaria 4.43Mbps |
| you have to listen, at least, if not try to experience | | | | 4. Romania 4.32Mbps |
| what they are talking about. In this case, the only | | | | 5. Russian Federation 4.28Mbps |
| advice is to get into the broadband wagon as soon as | | | | Looking at the rankings above, you're probably asking |
| possible! Why? Let's try to answer this question... | | | | yourselves about the US or the UK. Well, when it |
| ...with some interesting statistics from one of the most | | | | comes to the broadband speed check part, they are |
| reliable broadband speed check sites on the Web, | | | | both MIA. How's that possible? Don't ask, better take |
| SpeedTest.net. The statistics we'll check are the | | | | some test and see where you're standing. After all, a |
| following - download speed all over the world, top | | | | low country average doesn't mean you can't have |
| countries by download, and top countries by upload. | | | | Internet at the speed of light, right? |
| Ready or not, here we go! | | | | Good, now that we've gone through our broadband |
| Top Continents - Download | | | | speed check, I think you should try checking some |
| 1. Europe 5.60Mbps | | | | iMac Internet speed test, PC Internet speed test, or |
| 2. North America 5.53Mbps | | | | even some iPhone one(SpeedTest also has a special |
| 3. Australasia 4.42Mbps | | | | app for the iPhone, you have to give it a try!) to know |
| 4. Asia 3.69Mbps | | | | where you stand. |
| 5. South America 1.64Mbps | | | | At last, you don't have to worry about the speed you |
| 6. Africa 1.03Mbps | | | | have, as long as you can use Google, Wikipedia, and |
| Top Countries - Download | | | | other sites that are really useful(YouTube or MySpace |
| 1. Korea, Republic of 17.83Mbps | | | | aren't included in my "sites I must visit" list, really). All |
| 2. Japan 16.07Mbps | | | | you have to do before being disappointed by some |
| 3. Sweden 11.55Mbps | | | | broadband speed check is to remember that it's not |
| 4. Lithuania 11.28Mbps | | | | the bandwidth the one that really matters, it's what you |
| 5. Romania 10.33Mbps | | | | make of it! |