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This is a sortable list of broadband internet connection speed by country, ranked by Speedtest.net data for March 2024, [1] and with M-Lab data for June 2023 [2] Country/Territory Median
EarthLink logo from 1998–2015. EarthLink was founded in July 1994 by Sky Dayton when he was 23 years old. [9] Dayton was convinced of the need for a simple, user-friendly dial-up Internet service provider (ISP) after spending an entire week trying to configure his own computer for Internet access. [10]
Dial-up Internet access is a form of Internet access that uses the facilities of the public switched telephone network (PSTN) to establish a connection to an Internet service provider (ISP) by dialing a telephone number on a conventional telephone line which could be connected using an RJ-11 connector. [1]
Fixed-broadband access refers to high-speed fixed (wired) access to the public Internet at downstream speeds equal to, or greater than, 256 kbit/s. This includes satellite Internet access, cable modem, DSL, fibre-to-the-home/building, and other fixed (wired) broadband subscriptions. The totals are measured irrespective of the method of payment.
Canada's DATAPAC was the world's first public data network designed specifically for X.25 when it opened for use in 1976. [7]A 1983 project to network approximately 20 Canadian universities was initiated and driven at the University of Guelph by a small team including Bob McQueen, Kent Percival and Peter Jaspers-Fayer with the aim to share files and transfer emails.
In Canada, Rogers Hi-Speed Internet and Bell Canada have imposed bandwidth caps. [106] In 2008 Time Warner began experimenting with usage-based pricing in Beaumont, Texas. [ 109 ] In 2009 an effort by Time Warner to expand usage-based pricing into the Rochester, New York area met with public resistance, however, and was abandoned. [ 110 ]
DSLReports a (see "Online Status" [6]) North American-oriented broadband information and review site based in New York City. [7] The site's main focus is on internet, phone, cable TV, fiber optics, and wireless services in the United States and Canada, as well as other countries (United Kingdom and Australia).
The worldwide broadband speed league ranked India 74th out of 221 countries with a mean download speed of 47.99 Mbit/s as of 30 June 2023. [31] According to the Akamai Q1 2017 State of the Internet Report, the average internet connection speed in India is 6.5 Mbit/s and the average peak connection speed is 41.4 Mbit/s. Globally, India was ...