This is yet another thing the Republicans have been attacking (funding for rural broadband providers). Our rural areas are actually extremely well covered. Most of the midwest is fibered up. My local co-op’s minimum offered speed is 350x350.

ranked by Speedtest.net data

I have no other ideas to collect that data better but i'm sure that does not give a good generic view of the reality. Every tech I know in Sweden uses bredbandskollen. Even if an end-users is asked if they did test speed and delay, the site was bredbandskollen in nearly 100% of the cases if they had done so. Therefore I dare say speedtest is missing data and that list has no statistical relevance outside the scope of the speedtest user population.

Also, measuring speedtest result tells us about the subscription users took out. It does not tell anything about availability. I can get Gbit here, but subscribed to 100/100 because my average is low

Is this all of Japan? I wonder what it looks like comparing just Tokyo with LA

ranked by Speedtest.net data for January 2025

And the average speed of a passenger car is 170km/h, as ranked by speed data from the Nürburgring.

People on shitty slow connections don't have a need to go test that speed much, they know it's shit, people who just got their fancy new 1Gbit fiber and want to know exactly how fast it is, do.

Do you think Google Fiber made the average internet speed increase in part?

Japan seeming to be ahead of the curve 20 years ago but now being at the same level or behind, seems to be a common theme.