{"id":421,"date":"2009-08-31T08:07:43","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T12:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=421"},"modified":"2009-08-31T08:07:43","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T12:07:43","slug":"us-ranks-28th-in-the-world-for-internet-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/31\/us-ranks-28th-in-the-world-for-internet-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Ranks 28th In The World For Internet Speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study by the <strong>Communications Workers of America<\/strong>, using data supplied by <strong>Speed Matters<\/strong>, reports that out of all industrialized nations, the United States ranks 28th in Internet speed.<\/p>\n<p>Just how slow do we have it in the U.S.?\u00a0 Well, South Korea is currently 4 times faster than the U.S.\u00a0 And according to CWA President Larry Cohen, &#8220;<span>At our current rate of progress, <\/span><span>it will take the United States 15 years to catch up with current Internet speeds in South Korea&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Within the United States, the report was also broken down state by state.\u00a0 The states with the fastest Internet connections?\u00a0 Delaware, Rhode Island and New Jersey.\u00a0 And the slowest?\u00a0 Montana, Alaska and Idaho.<\/p>\n<p>On average, the United States has an Internet connection speed of 5.1 mbps.\u00a0 And 20% of those taking the speed test in the report didn&#8217;t even meet the FCC&#8217;s definition of &#8220;high speed&#8221;&#8230;which is a dismal 768 kbps.\u00a0 And people wonder why they get buffering messages while playing back videos on the web.<\/p>\n<p>To see where your state ranks in the speed test, visit the Speed Matters site by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speedmatters.org\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>clicking here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study by the Communications Workers of America, using data supplied by Speed Matters, reports that out of all industrialized nations, the United States ranks 28th in Internet speed. Just how slow do we have it in the U.S.?\u00a0 Well, South Korea is currently 4 times faster than the U.S.\u00a0 And according to CWA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[299,298],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}