According to a recently released report from research group In-Stat the US saw an increase of 28 percent last year in broadband download speeds and a 16 percent rise compared to last year in broadband upload speeds.

The report, which was called “US Residential Broadband Speeds Accelerate” was based on a report released by In-Stat and shows an overall average speed of 7.12Mbps for broadband downloads throughout the US and a 2.42Mbps average upload speed. The largest gains to bandwidth was seen be cable modem and wireless broadband users in 2009 with cable subscribers enjoying broadband speeds that were almost twice as fast as those available to users accessing over fibre-to-the home services.

With download performance rising by almost 47 percent with an average broadband connection speed of 5.58Mbps in 2008 the gains achieved in 2009 were not as high as they had been the previous year.

The fastest broadband performance was through the FTTH services offered by Verizon’s Fios with cable modems placing second out of all the different broadband technologies available.

It was found that 86 percent of users accessed their broadband services either through a DSL or a cable modem according to the residential customers that were surveyed. An average price of $39.22 was paid for broadband services by those who were survey and 79 percent of users said that they were either “somewhat satisfied” or “very satisfied” with the performance of their broadband service.

In a statement Mike Paxton, an analyst for In-Stat advised “Today’s broadband service subscriber is becoming increasingly aware of the capabilities, and the limitations, of their broadband connection. More and more broadband subscribers know the speed of their broadband connections–or at least they know the speed claims made by their broadband service provider.”

Source – Cnet