Mike Apgar (formerly of Speakeasy) and the folks over at Speedtest.net this week decided to open up their speed test data for public, government and private research. According to a company statement, that data includes over 1.5 billion tests so far (about a million a day). Academics will have access to the data for free, but businesses and private institutions will need to pay for it. The company compiles a rolling, 30 day average speed ranking by city and country.

South Korea (36.5Mbps), Latvia (23.3Mbps), Republic of Moldova (21.5Mbps), Japan (20.3Mbps) and Sweden (19.8Mbps) round out the fastest countries. Meanwhile, in the United States, the top performing states are Delaware (15.6Mbps), Rhode Island (15.2Mbps), Massachusetts (15Mbps), New Jersey (14.1Mbps) and Virginia (13.6Mbps). Alaska checked in as the slowest state with a 2.8 Mbps average download speed.

As for the fastest cities globally, Seoul (34.66 Mbps), Riga (27.90 Mbps), Hamburg (26.92 Mbps), Chisinau (24.43 Mbps) and Helskinki (20.60 Mbps) take the top five spots. A U.S. city doesn’t appear on the chart until San Jose at spot 18 at 15.03 Mbps.

You can take a look at the entire index here.
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