Global average peak Web connection speeds rose 17...
Global average peak Web connection speeds rose 17 percent to 18.9 Mbps in Q2 from the year-ago quarter, said Akamai’s latest State of the Internet Report (http://bit.ly/19N20g5). Speeds rose for both global average peak connection speeds and average connection speeds,…
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it said. Akamai also observed attack traffic across the Internet, with more than half of all attack traffic coming from Indonesia and China. For the first time in the company’s study of the Internet, more attack traffic came from Indonesia (38 percent) than China (33 percent). About 6.9 percent of attack traffic originated in the U.S., down from 8.3 percent in Q1. Also a first, port 445 wasn’t the most targeted port for attacks, it said of the port used for Microsoft functions. Port 443 was the target of 17 percent and 80 the target for 24 percent of attacks, while 445 was the target for 15 percent, it said. The report, which also studied mobile connectivity, said Android Webkit users accounted for about 38 percent of mobile requests to cell networks, compared with 34 percent from Apple Mobile Safari. Apple Mobile Safari accounted for about 54 percent of requests across all network types, while Android Webkit was responsible for 27.6 percent, said Akamai.