The slowest download speed test result from was a fraction of the rate promised by my ISP. and Odessa, Texas, don't fare much better: all receive information over their network at speeds far below what their ISPs promise. The figures were compiled by speed-test service Ookla, which owns .Īccording to Ookla's figures, the folks in Idaho Falls, Idaho, realize only half the download speed their ISPs claim to provide. The result was hardly a surprise given the massive sums the Qatari government and the country’s mobile operators spent on infrastructure as host to the 2022 FIFA World Cup: In the previous year, Qatar ranked 's HTML5-based network speed test recorded the fastest download rate of dozens of tests run at different testing sites.Īre you getting all the network bandwidth you're paying for? Good luck trying to find out.Īs Rani Molla reported recently in the Wall Street Journal, some ISPs are delivering download speeds up to 41 percent slower than they advertise. On the mobile broadband front, the Gulf State of Qatar shot to the top spot with a median download speed of 176.18Mbit/s. Interestingly, latency, which has become the trendy new metric de nos jours, improved only slightly from the 29 milliseconds (ms) reported in 2021 to 28ms last year in the mobile sector, while median fixed broadband latency remained constant at 10ms.Īs the chart above shows, Chile had the world’s fastest fixed broadband download speed, with a median speed of 216.46Mbit/s (having been second in the ranking the previous year).Ĭhina came second with 214.58Mbit/s, while Singapore was in close third place with 214.23Mbit/s (having topped the ranking a year earlier).Įlsewhere, Spain fell out of the top ten and was relegated to 11th place as the United Arab Emirates (UAE) took its place in the ranking.Īt the bottom of the league, in positions 179 and 180, are Afghanistan and Cuba, with median fixed download speeds of 2.25Mbit/s and 1.91Mbit/s respectively.

Those are good results by anybody’s reckoning, but upload speeds also showed pronounced improvement, with median mobile upload speeds increasing by 9% to 9.34Mbit/s and median fixed broadband upload speeds rising by 30% to 31.75Mbit/s.

The new report shows that, globally, median mobile download speeds increased by 17% to 33.97Mbit/s, whilst median fixed broadband speeds shot up by an impressive 28% to 74.54Mbit/s. The latest edition of analysis house Ookla’s Speedtest Global Index, which covers the period from November 2021 to November 2022, shows which countries have the fastest median fixed and mobile broadband speeds, with Chile and Qatar taking the respective download-speed crowns.

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