By Maggie Hui, posted Feb 5, 2012 at 2:30 PM, 1,336 views,

China Ranks 90 in Global Internet Speed Ranking

The largest CDN service provider Akamai has released its latest “State of the Internet” report for the third quarter of 2011. The data shows the global average Internet speed has increased 39 percent, with an average connection speed up to 2.7Mbps. Among the 100 fastest cities worldwide, cities in Asia continue to dominate the list. South Korea become top No.1 again with the fastest Internet connections of 46.8 Mbps. Hong Kong ranked No.2 spot, while China ranked only 90 …

According to the report, the average connection speed of South Korea increase 18 percent, up to 16.7Mbps. Hong Kong also had an average connection speed of 10.5 Mbps. China’s average connection speed was merely at 1.4Mbps, which is below the worldwide average of 2.7Mbps. But this has already showed an increase of 43 percent compared to the previous year. You may question why there is such a big difference on internet speed between HK and China, since the city of Hong Kong is already become one part of China. Hong Kong is a Special Administrative Regions (SARs), and has a much better infrastructure system than China. Although China has the highest population of internet users in the world, its vast territory and lack of effective competition in network industry has caused the internet speed to remain unsatisfactory.

Another startling figure which everyone should take into account is that the number of DDoS attacks has increased 2,000 percent over the past three years. More interestingly though, Akamai reports that nearly half of these attacks are coming from the Asia-Pacific region, with Indonesia being identified as the largest source with 14 percent of all observed attack traffic. Taiwan and China come in second and third, but account for less than 20 percent of attack traffic combined. Akamai said port-based attacks are still very active around the world, therefore it is very important to enhance the online security to prevent further system compromise and infection.

Overall, the Internet speed in China is still lagging behind compare to many developed countries. The nation’s telecoms providers have already announced they will substantially raise the China broadband speeds over the next five years. We just hope to see China can made a better ranking next time, it’s awkward to see the infrastructure of the country get so opposite with the booming economy.

SOURCE: Akamai, SECURITY WEEK
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