This year’s Akamai State of the Internet Connectivity report made a number of changes to how it tracked broadband, separating mobile networks from fixed lines and removing traffic from cloud hosting providers, which typically have extremely fast Internet connections, to prevent these two factors from skewing the outcome. Mostly the report measures how many IPv6 connections there are in the world, their average speed and their peak speeds. Below we have reproduced the average speed table, with South Korea remaining in the lead, but the US finally making an appearance in the table at 10th, ahead of many European countries at 18.7 Mbps. But although it has overtaken countries like the UK and France in this respect, this average rate…