The rapid growth of the average fixed internet speed in the Netherlands has come to an end. Where that between late 2008 and mid 2011 with two-thirds increased, is that since roughly the same, is evident from an analysis of Tweakers.
Where the average fixed internet speed in the fourth quarter of 2008 to 5.1 Mbit/s amounted to, was that in the second quarter of 2011 has already grown to 8.5 Mbit/s. Since then, the internet speed, however, hardly changed: in the fourth quarter of 2012, the average internet speed in the Netherlands Is 8.6 Mbit/s, only 100kbit/s. This is evident from an analysis that Tweakers has run in the past seventeen editions of the State of the Internet Report from Akamai. Since the end of 2008 Akamai that reports the average speed of internet connection, based on users connected to its servers. It is, therefore, to the actual speed that users achieve, not to the theoretical maximum speed at which the providers advertise.
Between the second quarter of 2011 and the last quarter of 2012 decreased the internet speed, even two quarters, to, respectively, the 8.2 Mbit/s and 8Mbit/s. That while the internet speed in the years preceding, in some quarters, with more than ten percent grew. Nevertheless, the Netherlands remains in the top ten of countries with the highest average internet speed, already lowered the Netherlands to the sixth place. Between 2011 and the first quarter of 2012 was the Netherlands in fourth place.
In the last quarter of last year, was in South Korea, the highest average speed can be found, with 14Mbit/s. Worldwide, the average internet speed between 2008 and the last quarter of 2012, with 93 percent increased from 1.5 Mbit/s to 2.9 Mbit/s. In the last quarter of 2012, the average peak speed in the Netherlands To 31.9 Mbit/s, with which the Netherlands has worldwide outside the top-ten. That while in Belgium with a peak rate from 33.4 Mbit/s in the top-ten. The highest peak speed that can be found in Hong Kong, where an average peak speed of 57.5 Mbit/s can be found. The global average is 16,6 Mbit/s.
From the most recent Akamai report shows that port 445 is the most misused for attacks, the port for Microsoft’s Directory Service: a whopping 30 percent of the attacks is the objective. Port 445 is followed by the Telnet port 23, port 3389 for Microsoft’s Remote Desktop and port 1433 for the SQL Server of Microsoft. Only 2.8 percent of the attacks targeting port 80.
