Bradford is the only British city to make the list of the 100 fastest broadband locations of the world – in 99th place.
With an average speed of just 6Mbps, Bradford is the fastest UK region. Such a low figure belies telecom service providers’ claims of a potential 20Mbps as a distant dream for copper-based wiring, and the reality of 40Mbps claims for fibre have yet to be proved. This is especially shocking because Bradford was one of the first cities to be offered Virgin Media’s 50Mbps service, and heavy promotion may be the reason why Bradford figures at the top of the UK list.
Akamai’s State of the Internet report for the last quarter of 2010 also places Southampton, Luton and Oldham just outside the top 100 but London, the UK’s premier business region, was well down the list (in the 400s) with an average of just 3.5Mbps.
Taegu in South Korea is the place to live if speed is required. The city came top with a speed of 18.4Mbps.
Akamai also looked at sources of malware attacks. As expected, Russia topped the list and accounted for 10 percent of malicious traffic. Taiwan and Brazil came second and third, each generating just over seven percent.
Attempts to clean up the US traffic seems to be having an effect, with the country dropping from first place in Q2 2010 to fifth place, marginally below China. However with both countries on a seven percent level the drop of over 3.5 percent to sixth-placed Egypt shows where clean up efforts should be concentrated.
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I would like 50mg broadband, id like 100mg broadband and id be prepared to pay for it tomorrow. The amount of internet devices I have connected to my router working at the same time is 9 devices and 6mg is all they are running off. Virgin isnt in my area so im on ADSL1 BT with no other options as my exchange isnt BT Infinity ready. Thats why the figures are low. People do want faster broadband but cant have it!