Americans like to think that they lead the world in most things (sometimes everything). There are many things that America does well, but it is far from universal.
In trying to assess my ISP speed performance issues, I learned about the Ookla speedtest. This is the source of many of the "speedtest" web pages around the net. Ya' gotta' wonder if you are paying for 3 Mbps and only occasionally getting above 1.5 Mbps.
http://ookla.com/
Ookla also produces stats for the Net Index site. This site shows download and upload speeds from around the world.
http://www.netindex.com/
The USA is not in the top 10 countries. The USA comes in at number 27.
One might think that the USA is a large country and that some of the slower, rural ISP providers could be dragging its numbers down. Surely, some of the major cities would be front runners.
The city ranking list shows its first USA city, Long Beach, California, at number 24.
The Google effort to wire pilot cities with high-speed, fiber optic Internet services is an experiment. What would people do or be able to do with availability of that much bandwidth?
http://www.fiberforcommunities.com/
What we must have is more people exercising their brain cells. I mean more than just public school students. If what we find from the Google experiment is that more people will be more entertained, then we can give up.
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