Some Statistics
- The median upload speed from the speedmatters.org test was 435 kilobits per second (kbps)
- US broadband average speed: 3.9 Mbps
- Average Global Download Speed: 1.5 Mbps
- U.S. ranked 17th with average downstream speed of 3.9 Mbps
Some Examples
In the following examples I present Upload Speed comparisons for files of various sizes. However, upload and download speeds in a typical household high-speed internet connection are not equal – download speed will almost always be faster because the high speed connection – DSL, cable or fiber-optics – is designed to be asymmetric. The download link is made faster because most people are retrieving data from a server, not uploading data.
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The Best of Times
These are the theoretical maximum speeds you can attain. In practice your speed will be less due to variations in connection speed (it is not constant) and other forms of latency. Latency is typically due to the distance information must travel on the network and interactions with routers and other types of networking devices. As an example your connection may pass through multiple servers (in some cases geographically quite distant from each other) and many, many routers. Even with transmission near the speed of light, each leg of the journey introduces delays which taken together equal latency.
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