Internet access is known to be the fastest in South Korea, which the Speedtest.net test has confirmed, ranking SK the first on its list with an average download speed of 34.35 megabit per second, way above the 7.68 global average.

Based on millions of recent test results from Speedtest.net, this index compares and ranks consumer download speeds around the globe. The value is the rolling average throughput in Mbps over the past 30 days where the mean distance between the client and the server is less than 300 miles.

Sudan, where an over 20-year civil war ended in 2005, finished last, with an average download speed of 0.34 Mbps, one hundredth of South Korea’s.

The top performers are also Latvia (24.41 Mbps), the Republic of Moldova (21.63 Mbps), Japan (20.43 Mbps) and Sweden (19.95 Mbps). Hungary ranks 22nd (10.99 Mbps).

The ranking of Hungarian cities brought interesting results, with Százhalombatta on top (31.47 Mbps). This is the result of over 2,200 tests. More then 210,000 tests in Budapest was enough for the 25th place for the capital city (12.55 Mbps).

Tests from 1,656,752 unique IPs have been taken in Hungary and 540,137 results were used for the current Index.

North Korea did not make it to the ranking, because only those countries qualified that allowed for tests from at least 75,000 IP addresses."

Source: Portfolio Online Financial Journal