Net Speed Sucks Here

In the Philippines, Internet web pages take an eternity to open, videos buffer oh so slow and files download as “fast” as the bumper-to-bumper traffic on EDSA on rush hour.

The annual Akamai Technologies, Inc. State of the Internet Report tells us why. In its most current list of countries by Internet connection speed, the Philippines was lodged at a lowly 50^th among only 55 nations tested.

The Philippines’ average connection speed of 2.5Mbps is the same as Vietnam’s and better only compared to India’s 2.0, Venezuela’s and Paraguay’s 1.3, and Bolivia’s 1.l.

That 2.5Mbps average net speed in the Philippines is even slower than the world average of 3.9Mbps.

In comparison, the 10 countries with the fastest net speed are as follows: South Korea (25.3), Hong Kong (16.3), Japan (15.0), Switzerland (14.5), Sweden (14.1), The Netherlands (14.0), Ireland (13.9), Latvia (13.0), Czech Republic (12.3) and Singapore (12.2).

Still, many Filipinos who subscribe to the most expensive local net connections would swear that they hardly get that reported speed of 2.5Mbps, and that the minimum speed guaranteed in their contracts is, most of the time, the norm.

If you’re in the Philippines and you suck big-time in first-person shoot ém up games, it may not be you. It’s you not playing in real time because of internet connection lag. 

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