South Korea is the fastest with an average high connection speed of 13.8Mbps

The UK is ranked just 25th in the world when it comes to the fastest average broadband speeds, Akamai has revealed.

According to the content delivery provider’s State of the Internet report for Q2 of 2011, which monitored the speed of more than 604 million unique IP addresses from 238 countries and regions, South Korea has the fastest average net connection in the world at 13.8Mbps. It’s closely followed by Honk Kong with 10.3Mbps and Japan at 8.9Mbps.

However, with an average speed of just 5Mbps, the UK falls far below these regions in 25th place. However, the report did reveal this is 28 percent faster than the broadband speed recorded in last year’s State of the Internet report.

The Netherlands, which was named the European country with the fastest broadband connection at 8.5Mbps, was ranked 4th in the world overall. The UK limped in at 15 out of 22.

Akami also revealed the global average connection speed improved by 21 percent to 2.6Mbps and over 80 countries/regions surveyed as part of the report saw their average connection speed increase by 10 percent or more on last second quarter, that’s twice as many as those that saw their net connection speed improve from Q4 of 2010. Sadly, the UK wasn’t one of these countries, only managing to achieve a nine percent increase on last quarter.

More than a quarter (27 percent) of all broadband connections surveyed by Akamai were 5Mbps or above, a figure the content delivery provider calls ‘Higher Broadband’. The Netherlands once again came top with 68 percent of all its connections classed as Higher Broadband. However, the UK once again ranked 25th with just 30 percent of the population having access to 5Mbps or above, a disappointing fact especially since seven of the ten countries with the biggest ‘Higher Broadband’ adoption are in Europe.

According to the report, 91 percent of the UK are getting speeds of 2Mbps or above.

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