By Adam Pash
Jul 27, 2010 10:30 AM
Net Index is a free service that ranks and compares download and upload speeds, quality of broadband connections, and internet service providers across the globe using data obtained from the popular Speedtest.net and Pingtest.net online tests.
The Net Index takes a little work to wrap your head around when you first visit the site, but it's full of useful information if you take a little time and start drilling down into its offerings. For example, the front page starts with the Household Download Index, which rounds up the average download speed across the globe, highlights the average speed by country (at 9.87Mbps, the U.S. is above the global average of 7.59 but below the seriously high speed countries, like South Korea's mind-blowing 31.38).
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