Other countries are getting faster internet, but not WE

Akamai released their quarterly State of the Internet report this week, with the chart showing the nations across the globe with the fastest networks. Between 2009 and 2009 on an average, the world's internet got 13% faster with a bitter end that America's got 2.4% slower.

This particular chart shows the 10 countries with the fastest internet in the world. It also shows that they're not slowing down. South Korea, already pumping at 14.6 Mbps, managed to improve 16% over last year. Ireland improved most dramatically of the top ten, improving their infrastructure to increase year over year speeds 73%.

But America, who has the 18th fastest internet in the world, slowed down ever so slightly to 3.9 Mbps in 2009. Though our nation as a whole didn't get any faster, some individual areas showed significant improvement, including a 20% bump in Massachusettes and a 17% jump in D.C. and Utah.

Nasdaq-listed Akamai (NSDQ: AKAM) Technologies, Inc., ranks India at 115 among the 223 countries measured in terms of average connection speeds. India’s average connection speed is 772Kbps while the global average is 1.5Mbps. South Korea, which ranks No.1, had average speeds of 15 Mbps.

The number of unique IPs from India grew 42.91% year-on-year, to 2.63 million, a figure that puts India at No. 20 globally. Globally, the number of unique IPs grew 20%. The US is ranked No. 1, with 114.1 million unique IPs.

Akamai also measures attack traffic, a measure of rogue activity on the Internet, such as DNS attacks, bots, spam activity and hackers. In terms of countries originating such activity, India is ranked at no. 17 globally, with 1.16% of observed attack traffic. US is ranked No. 1 on this parameter, with 22.85% of such traffic.