South Korea's Internet speed three times as fast as speed in some mostly rural states, report says

Rural Americans—especially those in the South—looking for faster Internet speeds might consider moving to Asia or Europe. Several mostly rural states are not only lagging behind the rest of the U.S. in Internet speed but also trail many of the world's developed countries, Niraj Chokshi reports for The Washington Post.

Alaska, Arkansas, Montana and Kentucky are the states with the slowest speeds, all averaging less than 7.4 megabits per second, which trails Poland and Hungary, which average 7.5 megabits per second, according to the Akamai State of the Internet Report. West Virginia, Mississippi, New Mexico, Idaho, Louisiana, Missouri and Wyoming all average 8 megabits per seconds or less, while Hawaii, Kansas, Arizona, Maine, Iowa, Alabama and Oklahoma average less than 9 megabits per second.

The average U.S. speed is 10.5, the report says. In comparison, South Korea averages 23.6 megabits per second, followed by Japan, 14.6; Hong Kong, 13.3; Switzerland, 12.7; Netherlands, 12.4; Sweden, 11.6; Czech Republic, 11.2 and Finland and Ireland, 10.7.

Virginia has the fastest speed in the U.S. at 13.3 megabits per second. Next is Delaware and Massachusetts, 13.1; Rhode Island, 12.9; Washington D.C., 12.8; New Hampshire, 12.3; Utah, 12.1; Michigan, 11.8; and Connecticut, North Dakota and Oregon, 11.7. (Read more)