A survey presented to a U.S. Congressional committee says average Internet download speeds in Canada are pretty quick — 7 megabits per second — compared to the U.S. but still slow compared to many of Canada’s G7 partners. If you had a 7 Mbps downstream connection, it would take you about six seconds to download your average 5 megabyte MP3 file. At 1.5 Mbps, it would take about 21 seconds and in Japan, it would take a just over half-a-second.
US high-speed Internet is slow
Submitted by Canada IFP on Sun, 2007-05-20 16:14.Americas | Tech | United States | News
The average broadband download speed in the US is only 1.9 megabits per second, compared to 61 Mbps in Japan, 45 Mbps in South Korea, 18 Mbps in Sweden, 17 Mpbs in France, and 7 Mbps in Canada, according to the Communication Workers of America.
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Another report, however, puts a little different perspective on the issue of comparative download speeds. A group called The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation says in its report that average U.S. download speeds are actually about 4.8 Mbps and still has Canada up around 7 Mbps.