Tuesday 28 January 2014

Global Rank of Average Internet Connection Speed by EMEA Country (Avg. Mbps)

Global Rank of Average Internet Connection Speed by EMEA Country (Avg. Mbps)

4 Netherlands 12.5 Mbps
5 Switzerland 11.6 Mbps
6 Czech Republic 11.3 Mbps
9 Belgium 9.7 Mbps
10 Ireland 9.6 Mbps
11 Austria 9.3 Mbps
12 Sweden 9.3 Mbps
13 Denmark 9.2 Mbps
14 United Kingdom 9.1 Mbps
16 Finland 8.5 Mbps
17 Norway 8.3 Mbps
18 Israel 8.3 Mbps
20 Russia 7.8 Mbps
21 Romania 7.8 Mbps
27 Germany 7.6 Mbps
29 Poland 7.4 Mbps
30 Spain 6.9 Mbps
31 Slovakia 6.8 Mbps
33 Hungary 6.7 Mbps
34 France 6.5 Mbps
41 Portugal 5.9 Mbps
48 Italy 4.9 Mbps
51 United Arab Emirates 4.5 Mbps
54 Turkey 4.0 Mbps
95 South Africa 2.3 Mbps

Data from Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Q3 2013)

Akamai "State of the Internet" report reveals some interesting stats.

Akamai have released their latest "State of the Internet" report covering data from the last quarter of 2013.

Inside is some rather interesting information and statistics from their content delivery network. Here are just a few of the highlights from their report.

Average Connection Speed by Country/Region in Avg. Mbps
– Global 3.6
1 South Korea 22.1
2 Japan 13.3
3 Hong Kong 12.5
4 Netherlands 12.5
5 Switzerland 11.6
6 Czech Republic 11.3
7 Latvia 11.1
8 United States 9.8
9 Belgium 9.7
10 Ireland 9.6


Attack Traffic, Top Originating Countries (by source IP address, not attribution)
1 China 35%
2 Indonesia 20%
3 United States 11%
4 Taiwan 5.2%
5 Russia 2.6%
6 Brazil 2.1%
7 India 1.9%
8 Romania 1.7%
9 South Korea 1.2%
10 Venezuela 1.1%
– Other 17%


Attack Traffic, Top Ports
445 Microsoft-DS 23%
80 WWW (HTTP) 14%
443 SSL (HTTPS) 13%
1433 Microsoft SQL Server 8.6%
3389 Microsoft Terminal Services 5.1%
23 Telnet 3.8%
135 Microsoft-RPC 2.8%
22 SSH 2.2%
8080 HTTP Alternate 2.0%
1998 Cisco X.25 Over TCP 1.6%

Various Other 24%

Data from Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Q3 2013)

Thursday 23 January 2014

IFTTT update: Introducing the Netatmo Weather Station Channel! Plus a new IFTTT Trigger


The Netatmo Weather Station monitors your living environment’s temperature, barometric pressure, humidity, carbon dioxide, noise pollution, and much more.


The new Netatmo Channel lets you create Recipes that interact with your environment in ways limited only by your imagination.


IFTTT Recipe: DM roommate when it gets too loud in the house



IFTTT Recipe: Too cold! Turn on the space heater



IFTTT Recipe: Change hue's color to orange when Carbon Dioxide rises above 1000 ppm



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New IFTTT Trigger


Have you seen the Favorites counter for your Recipes? Now you can know when one of your creations is Favorited by the IFTTT community!


IFTTT Recipe: Someone e︎'d my Recipe? Send me an email about it!


Tuesday 14 January 2014

FREE Domain Parking / Instant Website PHP Script

Instant Site is a simple mini-site script with auto-updating content which you can use instead of parking your domain name or if you want an instant website with content.

Just upload the PHP files to your website host and edit the config file and you have an instant site with content!
No messing around with wordpress or installing anything else!

You can change the keyword used to create specifically targeted content to match your domain name or subject. You can also set the site title and tagline that features in the website header.


The content comes from Youtube for videos, Google for news and articles, & eBay for products.

This is a great way to keep your domain name in Google while you build a new site or while selling your domain name.


Hosting Requirements.
PHP Version 5+
ionCube loader - Please check with your web host
PHP curl - Please check with your web host

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/791522/Instant-Site.zip