03/04/2014
India ranked lowly 130 in Ookla's average Internet download speed index.
While recent reports have indicated that the average Internet speed in India has been picking up, the latest numbers from Ookla’s Net Index shows that it still lags behind smaller nations like Bhutan, Cambodia, Nepal, Nigeria, Laos and Zimbabwe in terms of Internet download speeds. The company, while showing the average Index data, says that the results were obtained by analysing test results from October 27, 2013 to November 25 of the same year.
The numbers show that India is currently ranked at the 130th position with an average download speed of 4.18Mbps. The survey collected results from 9,346,234 unique IPs, and 2,803147 results have been used for the current Index out of a total number of 43,035,182 tests conducted. This places the country lower down the chain when compared to the average download speed in Nigeria, standing at 5.14Mbps or Nepal, which stands at 4.92Mbps. In contrast, countries like Cambodia, Laos and Bhutan have average download speeds of 4.66Mbps, 4.73Mbps and 4.41Mbps respectively. Zimbabwe boasts a slight higher average of 4.20Mbps.
The top five positions in terms of download speeds went to
Hong Kong at 71.22Mbps,
Singapore at 52.75Mbps,
Romania at 50.26Mbps,
South Korea at 47.20Mbps and
Sweden at 42.35Mbps.
The US ranked 31 with an average download speed of 20.74Mbps while the global average was 16.20Mbps. Countries like Afghanistan, Malawi, Benin and Gambia ranked at the bottom of the Index with average download speeds of 1.13Mbps, 1.16 Mbps, 1.21Mbps, 1.36Mbps and 1.46 Mbps respectively.