In case you’ve been longing to see where Canada would stand if one were to rank countries based on how fast the internet is, you are in luck. Pando Networks has ranked 224 countries based on just that and it turns out that the country lies somewhere in the middle of the list with the speed of a pedestrian i.e., 579KBps. Our southern neighbors seem to have it better, with an average of 616KBps, although they do have one ISP (Verizon) that averages significantly higher at 1,056KBps.
At the top of the list is Korea with 2,202KBps which is nearly 4 times faster than the internet speed we have in Canada. Eastern European nations such as Romania, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Latvia and Ukraine follow Korea in the list.
Countries like Congo and Central African Republic have speeds marginally faster than dial up modems (13KBps and 14KBps respectively) making the situation look way better in Canada but it’s a shameful matter nonetheless. And it looks like we have countries like Australia (at 348KBps) and China (245KBps) to keep us company.
City ratings have also been included in the study. Residents of North Vancouver are in the fast lane, at 864KBps, Toronto is somewhat slow with 500KBps and Regina reminds us of a turtle with 350KBps. All in all Canada is in the slow lane on the superhighway of information.
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