Global Broadband Connection Speeds Increase to 3.1 Mbps in First Quarter of 2013

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Akamai has released its State of the internet report for the first quarter of 2013, and when it comes to connection speeds, things are looking up.

According to the company, internet is growing, which has analyzed the Web through it's intelligent Platform analysis tool. It's found that the total number of unique IPv4 addresses hitting the Internet in the first quarter has reached to 734 million, or approx 34 million more than compared to the fourth quarter of 2012.

Meanwhile, Web connection speeds rose by 4%, climbing to a worldwide average of 3.1 Mbps. The global average peak speed was 18.4 Mbps.

South Korea is the world's leader in average connection speed, topping by a highest speed ever i.e. 14.2 Mbps. Hong kong was able to tally the highest peak connection speed of 63.6 Mbps. South Korea's success was due to its position as the world's leading broadband nation, with half of its citizens subscribing to the high-speed connection.

Akamai also offered up some data on security issues on the Web. The company found that attacks originated from 177 countries during the first quarter. Interestingly. China's attack traffic fell by 34% during the period, but Indonesia's impact as a source of security threats grew from 0% share to 20%. The U.S. accounted for 8% of all attacks.

One other interesting tidbit : traffic from mobile devices increased by 19% between the fourth quarter of 2012 and first quarter of 2013, and is double the mobile traffic from the first quarter of 2012.

[Source : cnet.tech]

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