How’s your broadband treating you lately? Ookla, the people responsible for that useful speedtest.net site where you can quickly measure your broadband download and upload speeds, released some telling stats today. It turns out that the United States average download speed of 10.12Mb per second (Mbps) is faster than the worldwide average of 7.69Mbps. Ookla is in a great position to provide this data, since its speedtest.net site records an astonishing 1 million speed tests every day from around the world. The company plans to give this data for free to academic researchers, and sell it to [...]

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