According to the www.netindex.com web site, the fastest access to the World wide web have residents of South Korea. The average throughput is 34.18 Mb/s.
The second location in this category takes Latvia with average throughput of 24.43 Mb/s. Czech Republic occupies the rank 21 (11.23 Mb/s), Hungary – 22 (10.8 Mb/s), Slovak Republic – 25 (10.52 Mb/s), Poland – 40 (6.55 Mb/s).
Taking into consideration cities, the residents of Seoul (South Korea) take pleasure in the fastest connection in the world, with an average of 34.66 Mb/s. The next city in this ranking is Riga (Latvia), with the average speed of data transmission 27.9 Mbps, the third is San Jose, California – in the heart of Silicon Valley – where the average throughput is 15.03 Mb/s.

The general trend is a rapid improve in bandwidth. In New York, the end user can obtain download speeds up to 100 Mb/s, with the service based on DOCSIS 3. technology. For a month, the subscriber of Optimum On the web Ultra service gets up to 101 Mb/s download speed and up to 15 Mb/s upload speed. This offer is available from Cablevision – the fifth-largest cable TV network in the US.
Also in the US, ViaSat company tests a new satellite to be launched early next year, with overall capacity of 130 Gb/s. The major recipients of its services are to be villages located east of the Mississippi River and along the West Coast of the US, which do not have access to the cable networks.
The development of telecommunications technologies, including Net access, is considered by several governments as a driving force that will help overcome the crisis.

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