849 kbps, India's average speedometer

BANGALORE, KARNATAKA: India has been ranked #114 for average connections speed, at 849 kbps. Haryana topped the list in the fourth quarter with an average speed of 1103 kbps followed by Kerala in the second position with an average speed of 1065 kbps.

India has been ranked #8, with 3.3 per cent of observed attack traffic. Russia remained the top attack traffic source, accounting for 13 percent of observed attack traffic in total. The United States and China returned to the second and third place spots, respectively, accounting for nearly 20 percent of observed attack traffic. Also, India ranked #20 globally for number of unique IP addresses seen by Akamai, with over three million IPs. Delhi and Maharashtra continue to top the list with over one million unique IPs each.

Akamai Technologies, Inc.announced the release of its 4th Quarter, 2009 State of the Internet report. During the fourth quarter of 2009, Akamai observed attack traffic originating from 198 unique countries, down slightly from 207 unique countries in the third quarter. Akamai observed attack traffic targeted at more than 10,000 unique ports, with the top 10 ports once again seeing nearly 92 percent of the observed attack traffic. Port 445 remained the most-targeted port for the seventh consecutive quarter, and continued to be overwhelmingly responsible for the highest percentage of attacks.

Brazil moved back down into fourth place. Talking of fastest Indian States, many states in India maintained average speeds above 768 Kbps, After making way for Kerala to move to the top of the list in the third quarter, Haryana is back on top of the list in the fourth quarter as the fastest Indian state with an average speed of 1,103 kbps. Kerala moved down to the second spot with an average speed of 1,065 kbps followed by Karnataka which retained its third spot with an average speed of 1,015 kbps.

When it comes to global 100 fastest cities, following the initial review published in the third Quarter, 2009 State of the Internet report, Akamai once again examined the average measured connection speeds at a city level. In an effort to filter out particularly small cities that may have been included in the previous report, the fourth quarter report analyzes cities with at least 50,000 unique IP addresses connecting to Akamai. Based on average measured connection speeds around the globe, eight of the top 10 countries saw quarterly increases in connection speeds. Eight of the top 10 also had higher average measured speeds at the end of 2009 than they did a year earlier.

South Korea, Hong Kong, and Japan provided the highest average measured connection speed by country. These countries were the only three to surpass 7.5 Mbps average connection speed in the fourth quarter.

During the fourth quarter, 96 countries had average connection speeds below 1 Mbps, down from 103 countries in the prior quarter. Akamai measured average connection speeds below 100 Kbps in only three countries in the fourth quarter - less than half as many as in the third quarter.