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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Kansas City is getting super high-speed Internet thanks to Google, but the state with the fastest connection speeds may surprise you.

It's not California, home to Silicon Valley, or New York, with all of its research institutions. It's tiny Delaware.

Delaware had an average connection speed of 10.2 megabits per second in the first three months of 2012, according to Internet provider Akamai's quarterly State of the Internet study, released on Thursday.

Delaware has "historically been a very strong performer in the years we've been covering," said David Belson, director of market intelligence at Akamai. "One key reason is that it's fairly small state, which likely makes it easier to bring higher speed connectivity to a larger percentage of the population."

Delaware clocked in nearly 9% faster than the average speeds in New Hampshire, the state with the second-fastest Internet connections.

Vermont, Utah and Rhode Island round out the top five U.S. states.

At an average speed of 6.7 Mbps, the United States ranks 12th in the world. Here's the good news: Connections are getting much faster. Each state's average speed increased by at least 9% compared with the fourth quarter of 2011.

"There's continued investment being made by both the telecoms as well as by the government," Belson said.

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I pay for 50mb with Comcast and normally get way over 8 Mbps, so uh, I'm faster than the fastest state already? lol

Also, since Comcast is trying to outdo you know who in speed. I'll be getting a free upgrade to their super awesome 100mb tier. Supposedly. Maybe. In 4 years. Probably.

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I hate you Americans... Australia's internet is woeful compared to you guys :(

Check out these "amazing" Optus Cable speeds. :\

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You know that you can pay Optus an extra $20 per month and get 100Mb/s right? Australia's Internet is not that bad... If you are in the city.

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I hate you Americans... Australia's internet is woeful compared to you guys :(

Check out these "amazing" Optus Cable speeds. :\

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Hey I watch this dood from Australia (Blunty3000 I think) on Youtube and while he says his internet is fairly slow he doesn't seem that slow being able to upload 1080p videos without killing Optus or whoever he uses :D

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You know that you can pay Optus an extra $20 per month and get 100Mb/s right? Australia's Internet is not that bad... If you are in the city.

I did not know that.. do you have a link I can follow? Im trying to find it on their site but as you know, its a complete mess lol

Edit: This is my current plan.

https://www.optus.com.au/shop/broadband/fusion/broadbandplan/79

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Oh that's much money /month you guys seems to pay for that tiny bandwidth :wacko:.. I'm only paying ~20$ (145 SEK) / month f?r 100/100 and i'm squeezing out around 95/95 of that! We all have different standards in the world, but EU internet is always better ;).

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I did not know that.. do you have a link I can follow? Im trying to find it on their site but as you know, its a complete mess lol

Edit: This is my current plan.

https://www.optus.co...roadbandplan/79

https://www.optus.com.au/shop/broadband/premiumspeed

From what I gather from looking online, the standard speed is 20/0.5, "Social" is 25/2, "Multimedia" is 50/2, and "Multimedia eXtream" is 100/2

They won't advertise these exact speeds however because they don't guarantee that you will reach these speeds (eg: You might get 92Mbps instead of 100Mbps in tests). also they throttle speeds even for customers who have a speed pack when there is high demand, and they have been slapped around by the ACCC fairly hard for making misleading claims in the past so they don't want to make any promises that could get them into more trouble but basically that's what you get.

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I'm paying too much for my internet, but I don't want comcast.

I avoided Comcast as long as I could, but here the alternative is U-Verse, and as nice a Cable TV service it is, their internet is not geared for a family with 2 desktops, a laptop, 3 phones, and a tablet or two, speed is too slow, and you could always tell when someone was downloading anything, it would just crawl. Can't be playing MMO's or FPS with a setup like that, at least not cometitively

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I only have 1mb with road runner but that's my choice. I don't see the point in paying extra for bandwidth when it doesn't really seem to be needed. I guess if you're uploading HD video but I can vpn into the office and stream video fine. I have a PC hooked up to my TV that I use just for streaming with no problems. If I've got a torrent going I let it run overnight and it's done by the morning. I do live alone so maybe that's why it seems fine for me.

My mom has 20mb and all she does is browse the web and email so it's a complete waste. Here's my speed for everyone to laugh at.

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I only have 1mb with road runner but that's my choice. I don't see the point in paying extra for bandwidth when it doesn't really seem to be needed. I guess if you're uploading HD video but I can vpn into the office and stream video fine. I have a PC hooked up to my TV that I use just for streaming with no problems. If I've got a torrent going I let it run overnight and it's done by the morning. I do live alone so maybe that's why it seems fine for me.

My mom has 20mb and all she does is browse the web and email so it's a complete waste. Here's my speed for everyone to laugh at.

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All I've got to say is that you must have lots of time on your hands :p

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This is pretty average for me, paying Comcast for 50/10

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Hey, z0phi3l. Isn't Xfinity part of Comcast? I pay around 52$ for my service. That is the lowest service plan tier they have. 29.95/month + 7$ modem + 12$ Basic (the most basic cable). Can I ask how much you pay monthly? My speed is 3Mbps downstream and 768Kbps upstream.

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I hate you Americans... Australia's internet is woeful compared to you guys :(

Check out these "amazing" Optus Cable speeds. :\

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I have similar speeds than you do(10 / .5 connection on roadrunner here in NYC). I don't see how that is a bad connectional at all. I feel as I dont need more speed at the current moment because I run everything fine with no buffer/lag/etc...

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I have similar speeds than you do(10 / .5 connection on roadrunner here in NYC). I don't see how that is a bad connectional at all. I feel as I dont need more speed at the current moment because I run everything fine with no buffer/lag/etc...

ditto, I'm getting around 10 / .5 on ADSL2+ (Maximum speed possible where I live as ADSL is so variable) and it is fast enough for everything. I'm not saying that it will be fast enough in the future, but for streaming, gaming, etc. with current technology, it is fine.

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