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)

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.

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!

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

IFTTT update: New Toodledo and Gumroad Channels! Plus Foursquare and Withings updates

The popular productivity tool Toodledo is now on IFTTT. Use the Toodledo Channel to create tasks, notes, and manage your to-dos in creative new ways.

Gumroad enables you to sell products like music, eBooks, and film directly to your audience. Use the Gumroad Channel to monitor or share your latest sales!

New Foursquare Trigger

Use the new Foursquare Trigger to run Recipes every time you add venues to your to-do list.

New Withings Trigger

Just in time for the holidays! The new Withings Trigger works when your weight surpasses a chosen threshold.

How to download your Facebook data

Facebook is a popular target for hackers, so by using the social network you are entrusting your account info, photos, friends' details, groups and other personal details to be stored outside your control. That's a potential privacy (and security) risk.

For this reason, it's worth making the occasional back-up to store locally on your PC. To do this, log into your account, click the cog icon in the top-right corner of any page and select Account Settings. Click General in the left-hand column, select 'Download a copy of your Facebook data' and then
Click Start My Archive.

Facebook will prepare the download, which includes anything posted on your timeline, sent and received messages, photos and videos; and your friend list.

You'll receive an email when the back-up is ready (this can take several hours).

Android 4.4 Kitkat

Google released version 4.4 of Android otherwise known as KitKat www.android.com/kitkat. Aside from a refreshed look and interface, the update to the mobile OS features a voice-activated system that lets you say "Okay Google" to launch the voice search, send a text message and play music. Android 4.4 also promises faster multitasking so you can listen to music while browsing the web without your devices performance being affected. KitKat also features a revamped contacts list, a centralized messaging hub, the ability
to print via the cloud, an improved file system and several other tweaks. KitKat will work on devices with as
little as 512MB of RAM which means it could be used for wearable computers such as smartwatches as well as on lower-end handsets.
At the moment the latter tend to run older versions of Android which mean developers have to build apps to support aging editions of the mobile OS.

While most Android users will have to wait for their mobile operator to roll out the update, KitKat will be
immediately available on the Nexus 4 phone the Nexus 7 and IO tablets and the new Nexus 5 phone www.google.com/nexus/5

The new handset, which, like the Nexus 4 is made by LG, features high-end specs but ls being sold at a
relatively low price. The 5in display has a resolution of 1,920 x LOBO, giving it 445 pixels per inch. Thats on a par with the HTC One and well above the screen on the iPhone 55. It runs a 2.3GHz Snapdragon processor and features a revamped camera and Google promises 17 hours of talk time between charges.

The 16GB Nexus 5 costs only £299 SIM-free while the 32GB version is £329 not a bad deal given that the 32GB HTC One costs £490 off-contract and the Samsung Galaxy S4 starts from £520.