It came in third place with an average speed of 2.17 Mbps for Netflix streams.
Many expressed support for even higher speeds, such as 500 Mbps and 1 gigabit.
South Korea leads both categories (average speed of 14.7 Mbps, 52 percent above 10 Mbps).
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Such services would start at speeds of 100 megabits per second (mbps), said Mr Helsen.
The latest version of Wi-Fi, called 802.11n, moves data at 160-300 megabits a second (Mbps).
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Two-way connections should hit speeds of up to 64 mbps for downloads, 2 mbps for uploads.
It calls for 100 Mbps broadband for 100 million (mostly suburban and urban) U.S. households by 2020.
If you watch videos and download music, photos and movies, you will want 15 to 25 mbps.
C. suburbs averaged just 6.96 megabits per second, versus 20.81 mbps for an iPhone 5 running Verizon LTE.
If you just surf the Web and use email, up to three to six mbps should be enough.
The new iPad includes fourth-generation wireless broadband technology to deliver content at speeds of up to 15 Mbps.
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Macworld has taken the new MBPs for a test flight and, guess what, Apple's been pulling our legs.
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The Overdrive Pro will allow up to five devices to connect to it and get speeds up to 8 mbps down.
It was more common to experience about 5 Mbps download and less than 2 Mbps upload (still speedy).
It claims data rates of up to 7 Mbps down to the device and up to 2 Mbps up.
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The bell curve of human foibles will keep its shape even after 10-mbps cable modems take over our homes.
The maximum data-transmission speed is limited to 802.11b's 11 Mbps, versus 802.11g's 54 Mbps, but it works just fine.
Participants of the trial saw speeds consistently in the range of 8-12 Mbps and frequent performance above 20 Mbps.
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According to CNET, the download speed jumps to 9.8 Mbps from 1.7 Mbps.
These routers would deliver up to 150 Mbps data connections to Wi-Fi-capable devices.
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Once completed, U-verse will reach 33 million homes and will boost Internet speed to as high as 75 Mbps.
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Results: At 2.27 megabits per second (mbps), the pigeons handily trumped the 1.5 mbps speed of a typical DSL connection.
You might think that the 7.2 Mbps sounds pretty good, but remember that this is an average, not a baseline.
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Thus, some 310 Mbps of HD video were added to the normal traffic on a 622 Mbps (OC-12) network link.
Natel infinity XL even lets customers surf the Internet at speeds of up to 100 Mbps while on the go.
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Laptop data modems generally have done better for me than phones, getting download speeds of between 1 and 5 mbps.
The Cloud Gigabit Router N300 is capable of up to 300 Mbps, while the Cloud Gigabit Router N600 hits 600 Mbps.
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That means the U.S. just needs to double its average speed to get close to South Korea at 14.7 Mbps.
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In the meantime, though, you can expect speeds anywhere between 4 and 10 Mbps down, and 1 to 2 Mbps up.
On Speed Test, we measured speeds of around 4.5 Mbps down and 800 Kbps up -- on par with other devices.
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