Europe and the Far East: Schooling the US with Faster Speeds

A Global Game Download Report by Pando Networks has been released. In it are listed the ranks of countries by their average download speeds.

It lists users in the following countries to be the most successful in completing a game download:

• South Korea: 94%
• Hong Kong: 93%
• Japan: 93%
• Bulgaria: 93%
• Taiwan: 92%
• Denmark: 91%
• Sweden: 91%
• Iceland: 90%
• Latvia: 90%
• Norway: 89% 

 Even Bulgaria is now as competitive as South Korea!

More information is reported with a listing of the average download speeds for the top five countries:

• South Korea: 2,202 KBps (17.62 Mbps)
• Romania: 1,909 (15.27)
• Bulgaria: 1,611 (12.89)
• Lithuania: 1,463 (11.70)
• Latvia: 1,377 (11.02)
• Switzerland: 654 (5.23)
• Germany: 647 (5.18)
• United States: 616 (4.93)
• Great Britain: 599 (4.79)

How much are you paying and how fast is the service? Either way, off to the far East for me!