The Internet around the world was no different until recently high speed. So, just 15 years ago, even in the most developed countries, the connection to the network was very slow. This seriously limited the speed of information exchange. Today everything has changed. The highest speed internet can be found in Korea and Japan. The latter is ahead of the entire planet in terms of connection speed.
The fastest Internet in the world appeared not so long ago in Japan.
It was launched by the famous Internet provider So-net Entertainment, part of Sony. This new network is called Nuro. It is particularly fast. Nuro is based on fiber optic technology. On this moment Download speed reaches 2 gigabits per second. At the same time, the download speed reaches 1 gigabit per second. This information was provided by official representatives of Sony.
For now, the fastest Internet in the world can only be experienced by those who live in Tokyo and the nearest six prefectures. Besides, it’s not that high on him. It is $51 per month. But there are some conditions. Thus, concluding a contract with a provider is a mandatory procedure. There is a one-time connection fee of $535. The contract for the fastest Internet in the world is valid for two years.
A similar technology operates in the USA (in Kansas City and Texas). It's called Google Fiber. Compared to Japan, the subscription fee there is twice as high, and the download speed is two times lower. In addition, Google Fiber is currently only working in experimental mode. Kansas City is chosen as the base.
The latest generation fiber optic network was created in the city, whose population is 600 thousand people. The cost of the offer is $120 per month. It includes not only unlimited Internet with a speed of 1 gigabit per second, but also 7 with Fiber-TV. But there are also cheaper options that allow you to abandon Internet television. Compared to Nuro, Google Fiber will be more expensive anyway.
Scientists from the UK are working on a new technology that is designed to radically change the speed of Internet access. They are developing new technologies at Bangor University. They plan to change the Internet speed to 20 gigabits per second for ordinary users thanks to new developments and technologies. And this is approximately 2,000 times faster than today.
The fastest Internet in Russia still lags behind advanced countries in terms of speed high technology. But there is a possibility that the residents of our country will also be able to walk in the open spaces world wide web with high connection speed. The prerequisites for this already exist. So, in Chelyabinsk they launched in test mode new technology, allowing you to get Internet speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second.
As for Japan, unfortunately, the fastest Internet in the world will not be available to everyone without exception. personal computers. The fact is that most PCs are equipped with built-in network card, which limits download speeds to 1 gigabit per second. Therefore, the new network will be available only at enterprises where special equipment is installed on computers. The development of new technologies does not stand still, and in the near future, fast Internet will be available to most users.
The fastest mobile Internet in Russia is provided to its subscribers by MTS, the leader in Moscow is Tele2, according to experts from the Radio Frequency Center, subordinate to Roskomnadzor. Other operators do not agree with these data
Photo: Vladislav Shatilo / RBC
MTS is the leader among operators in terms of average speed mobile internet in Russia. This conclusion was reached by experts from the Radio Frequency Center of the Central federal district, subordinate to Roskomnadzor, said at a conference in Moscow on May 26, the deputy general director center Dmitry Mitrofanov. The study was carried out using the Roskomnadzor methodology with measurements in 52 cities: experts recorded the speed of data transfer to the subscriber.
The average mobile Internet speed of MTS was 6.6 Mbit/s; in the market as a whole it was lower - 5.4 Mbit/s. MegaFon’s Internet speed is also higher than the “Russian average” - 5.6 Mbit/s. Third place was taken by VimpelCom (Beeline brand), whose network speed was 5.2 Mbit/s. Tele2 transfers data at an average speed of 4.8 Mbit/s. The last place was taken by the Crimean operator K-Telecom (Win Mobile brand) with an indicator half the market average - 2 Mbit/s.
The radio frequency center has been measuring communication quality since 2015. It has improved over the year, says Mitrofanov. For example, in Moscow, the average data transfer speed has doubled - from 3.2 to 6.1 Mbit/s. This is due to the increase in the number of base stations for signal transmission using LTE (4G) technology, explains the deputy general director of the center. According to Roskomnadzor, over the year the number of LTE base stations in Russia grew by 109%, to 72 thousand. MTS has the most of them - 27 thousand. MegaFon has 26 thousand such stations, VimpelCom - 11 thousand, Tele2 - almost 4 thousand.
The fastest mobile Internet is received by residents of the Central Federal District, and the slowest - by the Far Eastern, said Mitrofanov. In Moscow, experts put Tele2 in first place in terms of data transfer speed. It is followed by MTS and VimpelCom. Only MegaFon, which took last place, had a data transfer speed lower than the average for the capital. Mitrofanov did not disclose specific data for each of the operators in the capital.
Representatives of operating companies differed in their assessments of the study. Only MTS agreed with the conclusions: “The company is a leader both in the number of 4G base stations and in coverage area - our fourth generation networks,” said operator representative Dmitry Solodovnikov. At the same time, according to Solodovnikov, in Moscow “it is incorrect to compare the parameters of the MTS network with the network of a newcomer to the rating”: it has several times fewer subscribers, so the load is five to seven times lower than that of the Big Three operators.
Russia has very good and, no less important, affordable home Internet. Seriously! In villages and very deep provinces, things are, of course, worse, but take any city, even a small one, in the European part of the country and look at the tariffs. For 300–400 rubles a month you can bring Internet to your apartment at a speed of around 25–50 megabits per second, and with some promotion even 100 megabits.
For comparison: in “civilized” countries, fast Internet (both home and mobile) is much more expensive. And the concept of “monthly data limit” still lives there. We only have this left with mobile operators.
However, being cheap is not a reason to pay for something you don’t use. Even a hundred rubles saved warms your wallet, and therefore the tariff for your home Internet must be chosen based on your real speed needs. Let's figure out how many megabits per second are required in different situations, and start with the basic concepts.
Megabits, megabytes and real speeds
Data size is usually measured in bytes. For example, an HD movie weighs from 700 megabytes (megabytes) to 1.4 gigabytes (gigabytes), while a Full HD movie weighs from 4 to 14 gigabytes.
Data transfer rates are usually specified in bits (not bytes!) per second, and sometimes this causes misunderstanding.
Byte ≠ bit.
1 byte = 8 bits.
1 megabyte = 8 megabits.
1 megabyte per second = 8 megabits per second.
If the user does not distinguish between bytes and bits, he can easily confuse them or mistake them for the same thing. In this case, it will calculate the approximate time for downloading an HD movie via torrent something like this:
- The film weighs 1,400 "megs".
- Internet speed is 30 “megas” per second.
- The movie will download in 1,400 / 30 = 46.6 seconds.
In fact, the Internet speed is 30 megabits per second = 3.75 megabytes per second. Accordingly, 1,400 megabytes must be divided not by 30, but by 3.75. In this case, the download time will be 1,400 / 3.75 = 373 seconds.
In practice, the speed will be even lower, because Internet providers indicate the speed “up to”, that is, the maximum possible, and not the working speed. In addition, interference, especially over Wi-Fi transmissions, network congestion, and limitations and characteristics of user equipment and service provider equipment also contribute. You can check your speed using, and increase it using.
Often the bottleneck becomes the resource from which you download something. For example, your Internet speed is 100 megabits per second, and the site sends data at a speed of 10 megabits per second. In this case, the download will occur at a speed of no more than 10 megabits per second, and nothing can be done about it.
What internet speed do you really need?
Obviously, the above table requires clarification.
Questions and answers
What to do if the Internet is used on two or more devices at once?
Let’s say you are watching Full HD streaming video on a smart TV, your wife is surfing YouTube on a laptop with an HD screen, and your child is watching something from a smartphone or tablet, also in HD quality. Does this mean that the numbers from the table need to be summed up?
Yes, that's absolutely right. In this case, you will need about 20 megabits per second.
Why do different sites have different speed requirements for watching videos of the same resolution?
There is such a thing as bitrate - the amount of information with which an image is encoded per unit of time, and, accordingly, a conditional indicator of the quality of picture and sound. The higher the bitrate, the better the image, as a rule. This is why on torrents you can find versions of the same movie with the same resolution, but different sizes.
Additionally, there are super-smooth 60fps videos. They weigh more and require faster internet.
Is it true that online games are so undemanding of Internet speed?
Yes, for most games like CS, Dota 2, WoT, WoW and even GTA 5, just one megabit per second is more than enough for multiplayer, but in this case, ping becomes decisive - the time it takes for the signal to travel from you to the game server and back. The lower the ping, the lower the latency in the game.
Unfortunately, it is impossible to know in advance even the approximate ping in a specific game through a specific provider, since its value is not constant and depends on many factors.
Why during video calls does the picture and sound from my interlocutors go normally to me, but not from me to them?
In this case, not only incoming, but also outgoing Internet speed becomes important. Often, providers do not indicate the outgoing speed in the tariff at all, but you can check it yourself using the same Speedtest.net.
To broadcast via a webcam, an outgoing speed of 1 megabit per second is sufficient. In the case of HD cameras (and especially Full HD), the requirements for outgoing speed increase.
Why do Internet service providers start at 20–30 or more megabits per second in speed tariffs?
Because the higher the speed, the more money I can take it from you. Providers could keep the tariffs “from the past” with a speed of 2–10 megabits per second and reduce their cost to 50–100 rubles, but why? It is much more profitable to increase the minimum speeds and prices.
Where can I find the fastest internet? Today, many people do not know how low the speed was during the era of the popularization of the Internet. Today we can watch movies online, but previously it took tens of minutes to download one song. But nevertheless we still complain about low speed, calling providers and angrily scolding them. So where is the fastest internet in the world today? Rating of countries according to Akamai Technologies.
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Hong Kong ranks first in the list of countries with the most fast internet. Average speed is 63.6 megabits per second. This is more than three times the global average (18.4 Mbps).
The home of Nintendo and Sony ranks 2nd in internet speed, thanks to a fiber optic network that runs throughout Japan. Average speed is 50 Mbit per second.
Internet speed in Romania is 47.9 Mbps.
The country of professional gamers simply cannot live without good internet and good ping in games. The homeland of such giants as Samsung and LG has an average Internet speed of 44.8 Mbit per second.
By the way, we want to immediately disappoint you: Russia was not included in the rating. But everything is not so bad and we are no longer obvious outsiders. The Internet in Russia is developing and more and more providers are providing good speeds. Where is the best internet in Russia? You can find the best provider using the “Where is Better” service.
The average Internet speed in Singapore is 41.1 Mbps.
Switzerland is a major center for the financial industry, which requires an ultra-fast Internet connection. Average speed – 40.3 Mbit.
Bulgaria is known for its low taxes and cheap labor force. Today Bulgaria is also known for its fast Internet. Average speed is 38.2 Mbits per second.
It's amazing how much the world has changed in just a quarter of a century. Just a few years ago, people received information from newspapers, books, and radio and television networks. Nowadays, all you have to do is walk to your computer and click on the browser icon to open a window as wide as the entire world. Moreover, even computers are no longer required to access the Internet. They are successfully complemented (and for some, replaced) by a smartphone.
What providers in Russia provide their users with Internet access using the latest science and technology? The answer to this vital question is provided by the Speedtest web service from Ookla. The service has a rich database - to date it has conducted 21601897000 tests.
For determining the fastest mobile Internet operators in Russia The company used the following method.
- First, the most influential mobile Internet providers on the market were determined (from 3% and above market share).
- Then statistics on download speed and upload speed were compiled for them. Weighted averages of 10%, 50% and 90% traffic speeds were taken and then combined in a 1:2:1 ratio.
Here's how speeds are distributed among the four largest Russian mobile operators.
Download speed— 11.63 Mbit/sec.
Data upload speed— 6.27 Mbit/sec.
With the “yellow-striped” operator, data moves over mobile networks as if they are in no hurry. We don’t know the reasons for this, but the result is obvious – according to the rating, mobile Internet from Beeline lags behind the leader by more than two times. Interestingly, the latency of all four providers is approximately the same. Beeline is practically no different from either MTS or MegaFon and even shows top scores than Tele2 (49, 49, 50 and 57 ms, respectively).
Recently, Beeline entered into partnership agreements to modernize networks with one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world, Huawei, so perhaps the situation will change for the better.
3. Tele2
Download speed— 13.83 Mbit/sec.
Data upload speed— 6.50 Mbit/sec.
Tele2 is constantly improving both its tariffs and data transmission capabilities. About a year ago, the operator began using several of the latest technical solutions like the latest generation self-optimizing network and public access network. And recently, together with Nokia Tele2, they tested 5G technology.
Download speed— 15.49 Mbit/sec.
Data upload speed— 6.96 Mbit/sec.
While Tele2 is teaming up with Nokia to test 5G, MTS prefer Ericsson. Most recently, both companies conducted field tests that showed that it is quite possible to accelerate mobile Internet speeds to 25 GB per second. Not bad, right?
Moreover, thanks to the optimization of its software, the use of new technologies can not only increase the speed and coverage of the network, but also reduce energy consumption. And this is both cheap and environmentally friendly.
Download speed— 24.68 Mbit/sec.
Data upload speed— 10.57 Mbit/sec.
And MegaFon receives gold from Speedtest in the 2018 speed rating of Russian mobile operators. His techniques managed to achieve impressive result, almost double the next place on the list. MegaFon's average download speed reaches an impressive 24.68 Mbit/sec. It is surprising that MegaFon demonstrates this speed in old generation networks (2G, 3G and 4G). It’s scary to think what will happen in new networks (5G), but the company, like others participating in the rating, is testing new equipment. It is interesting that MegaFon is conducting this testing jointly with the same Chinese telecommunications company Huawei as Beeline.
Based on the results of Speedtest research, it is clear that mobile Internet works best in Moscow. There, MegaFon's average speed is 37.36 Mbit/sec. But in other cities the situation is not so brilliant. Even in St. Petersburg, which is considered one of the cities, the speed drops by almost a third and is only 23.18 Mbit/s.
Just 11 years ago, the number of mobile Internet users was a measly 3% of the total number of Internet users. Now the volume of traffic transmitted through mobile networks has reached an impressive 52.4%. Russia was no exception. Although the overall Internet mobilization of the country still leaves much to be desired (our country ranks modestly 78th, somewhere between Malaysia and Chile), it continues to grow and develop. The Internet is becoming not only more accessible, but also faster.