Online applications too demanding for UK broadband

Friday 12 September 2008

New research conducted on behalf of Cisco Systems by the University of Oxford's Said Business School has found that broadband speeds in the UK, Spain, Australia and Italy are too slow to cope with a lot of modern web applications like video streaming and file sharing, and offer customers a good experience at the same time. In comparison, Japan topped the bill for the world's best broadband performance, closely followed by the Netherlands and Sweden. In order to collate the data needed for this research study a total of 8 million "measurements" were collected using Speedtest.net as a tool. The total score was produced by combining download speed, upload speed and latency (server response time) performance. The results were as follows: Top 10 Countries for Broadband Quality: 1. Japan 2. Sweden 3. Netherlands 4. Latvia 5. Korea 6. Switzerland 7. Lithuania 8. Denmark 9. Germany 10. Slovenia Speedtest.net's Separate Top 10 Countries for Broadband Download Speed: 1. Japan - 16,146Kbps (16Mbps) 2. Sweden - 9,320Kbps 3. Romania - 8,675Kbps 4. Latvia - 8,170Kbps 5. Republic of Korea - 7,749Kbps 6. Bulgaria - 7,739Kbps 7. Lithuania - 7,042Kbps 8. Netherlands - 6,736Kbps 9. Germany - 6,568Kbps 10. Russia - 6,561Kbps Speaking to The Telegraph, Alastair Nicholson, a member of the research team from the University of Oxford, commented: "Average download speeds are adequate for web browsing, email and basic video downloading and streaming, but we are seeing more interactive applications, more user-generated content being uploaded and shared, and an increasing amount of high-quality video services becoming available."

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