The global average Web connection speed rose...
The global average Web connection speed rose 4 percent to 3.1 Mbps between Q4 2012 and Q1 2013, said the Akamai State of the Internet report released Tuesday (http://bit.ly/18AzSTy). Since Q1 2012, average connection speeds increased by 17 percent, it…
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said. Average connection speeds on mobile platforms ranged from a high of 8.6 Mbps to a low of 0.4 Mbps in Q1 of this year, it said. Akamai also increased its Internet penetration in that quarter: more than 733 million unique IPv4 addresses from 243 countries and regions connected to the Akamai platform, an increase of 10 percent year over year, it said. IPv6 adoption in general slowed, it said: The rate of growth in Q1 2013 was 5 percent, half as much as Q1 2012 and a quarter of that during Q1 2011, it said. Akamai also said it observed attack traffic, or suspicious connection attempts, from 177 unique countries and regions during Q1. Thirty-four percent came from China, down from 41 percent the previous quarter, and 8.3 percent came from the U.S., down from 10 percent the previous quarter. Akamai customers reported 208 distributed denial-of-service attacks, up from 200 in the previous quarter.