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NOTE: The figures in this blog post are updated live. Anyone linking to this article should probably avoid quoting the actual numbers in their own article.

A few weeks ago I posted a link to a web based application that we wrote to test the download speeds on the 3G iPhone. So far 806 tests have been performed by users from all over the world.

The average 3G connection speed (ie filtering out the results from 2G or Wi-Fi tests) for each country, in order of fastest to slowest, is as follows:

For comparison the figures for 2G performance are:

Now, there are some limitations to our test methodology. We rely on the honesty (and intelligence) of the user to select the correct test (2G, 3G, Wi-Fi etc) based on their current connection as displayed at the top left of their iPhone screen. Some suspicious results (eg a download speed of 5Mbps on a claimed 2G GPRS connection) are filtered out automatically. In addition, our test server is located in the USA so connections to a server based in a users home country may well exhibit faster download speeds. However, as the majority of the most popular websites are based in the USA it’s still a valid test.

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