Bangladesh ranks 184th in the world in terms of broadband internet speed

Dhaka: Bangladesh is ranked 164th out of 221 countries in the world in terms of broadband internet speed. The average internet speed in Bangladesh on broadband is 3.2 megabytes per second or 3.2 Mbps.

However, Bangladesh is ahead of China in terms of technology.

This information emerged in a recent M Lab report run by Google and several US universities. From July last year to June this year, M Lab conducted a survey on broadband Internet speed in 221 countries.

In this survey, the internet speed of 50,000 unique Bangladesh IP addresses was checked four lakh 6 thousand times. It has an average speed of 3.2 Mbps. This speed is higher than the average speed in China. The country’s broadband speed at the tech giant is 2.1 Mbps. China’s position on the list is 200.

According to the survey report, Bangladesh ranks third in the list of slowest broadband internet in South Asia. And the average broadband internet speed in Bangladesh is about 6.2 times slower than the average internet speed in Asia. At the same time, it is 7.6 times slower than the entire world.

The fastest broadband internet in the world has been found in a small country called Liechtenstein. The average Internet speed in the country is 230 Mbps. At this speed, it will take less than 3 minutes to download a 5 GB file.

The rest of the top five countries are Jersey, Andorra, Gibraltar and Luxembourg, respectively. In these countries, it takes 3 to 6 minutes to download a 5 GB file. South Sudan, on the other hand, is at the bottom of the list. The country’s average download speed is just 0.6 Mbps.

Bangladesh Time: 2:30 PM, September 4, 2020
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