The global average internet connection speed rose 20 percent year-over-year to 4.5 Mbps, according to the latest State of the Internet report from Akamai. The cloud service provider, which publishes ...

The average broadband speed across the globe has reached an average of 5.1 Mbps with 65 percent of connections higher than 4 Mbps, according to Akamai. The global average broadband speed has increased ...

ADSL 1024 subscribers started posting late yesterday on the MyADSL forums that they are getting speeds of up to 425KB/s – or 3400 kbps -, sound evidence that some lines have been upgraded to 4 Mbps.

The FCC has re-defined the minimum requirements of broadband to 4 Mbps downstream and 1 Mbps upstream. That’s a huge jump up from the previous minimum of 200Kbps ...