Internet speed test
Ireland is listed at 41 in world internet speed rankings, behind other countries like Bulgaria, Poland and the United Kingdom, according to aggregated data from SpeedTests.net. Perhaps most dishearteningly, Ireland has the second lowest internet speeds among EU member states, only scoring marginally better than Luxembourg in last place.
Ireland’s average broadband speed is 3.34Mbps, 35% slower than the European continent average of 5.15Mbps. Switzerland ranks 1st in the world in terms of internet speeds achieving an average 8.52Mbps, while the United States and the United Kingdom are placed in 4th and 16th with speed averages of 7.82Mbps and 5.35Mbps respectively. Afghanistan has the lowest recorded average internet speed of 0.21Mbps.
The top ten achievers in the EU alone are the Netherlands in first place, followed by Portugal, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, Romania, France, and Estonia.
This data largely reflects that of our own Irish broadband speed survey we conducted among readers of The Sociable earlier this year.
Meanwhile, the latest report from the Commission for Communications Regulation suggests that the number of internet subscriptions in Ireland has actually fallen in the second quarter of 2011. This is largely due to the sharp fall in narrowband subscriptions like dial-up internet between the first and second quarters, but also due to the -1.3% decrease in the number of mobile broadband subscriptions – are consumers discarding secondary mobile broadband subscriptions as part of a cost cutting exercise?
Even the biggest software companies understand that moving quickly is no longer a luxury; it's…
The RAND Europe authors are so stuck in their own echo chamber they don't realize…
Humans, animals & commodities alike are all to be digitally tagged, tracked-and-traced equally: perspective The…
Teaching has changed a lot over the years, from chalkboards to laptops, from printed worksheets…
The massive city-wide surveillance that collaborative sensing requires is a tremendous temptation for tyrants: perspective…
Innovation in software can lay claim to the very solutions that today have become the…
View Comments
its still probably faster in Dublin than it is here in middle america (:
its still probably faster in Dublin than it is here in middle america (: