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Sandy, Utah Tops US Cities For Broadband Speed

Posted by timothy on from the short-hop-to-awesome-slc-library dept.

darthcamaro writes "If you want to live in the city with the fastest average broadband connection speed in the US, you have to move to Utah. According to Akamai's latest State of the Internet Report, Sandy, Utah is at the top of the list for US cities with the fastest average broadband speeds, with an average connection speed of 33,464 Kbps (33.5 Mbps). Overall in the US, the average broadband connection speed in the third quarter of 2009 came in at 3.9 Mbps, down by 2.4 percent on a year-over-year basis, but that's not a major cause for concern in Akamai's view. 'The overall year-over-year decline in the US average connection speed was relatively minor,' report author David Belson, director of market intelligence at Akamai Technologies said. 'The larger year-over-year sample base may have contributed to the decline, especially as mobile usage grows.'"

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  1. Re:Average is 33 megabits .... from who? by Shadow-isoHunt · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I used to live in Sandy. Comcast offers a 20mbit plan, and you can get a 100mbit link from xmission.

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  2. Re:Meanwhile... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hey, I saved you the effort - go to http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/slashdot.org where you'll find that Americans comprise 47.1% of Slashdot visitors. While they are the largest single block, they do not comprise "the majority".

    Please check your facts, you arrogant Yankee imperialist running dog.

  3. Re:I live in second place Iowa City... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Just so its clear, its not fiber to the house like Verizon FIOS, its actually fiber to the neighborhood (in my case a node about 2500 ft away) and then VDSL2 over POTS to the house.

  4. Fastest speeds? by noidentity · · Score: 2, Interesting

    US cities with the fastest average broadband speeds

    Is that like having a speedometer for your speedometer, to see how fast your speed is?

  5. Re:Nice in theory, but.. by jbengt · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Discover Card also has a relatively large call center / data center there
    I wonder if those sorts of users show up in the statistics