Internet Speed Growth Rate

Since 1990, hard disk storage capacity doubles in about every 1 year, computing speed doubles by about every 2 years. What about internet speed?

How Fast Net Speed Grow?

It's about 50% faster per year.

The formula is c*1.5^n where n is number of years, and c is a constant.

Assuming in 1990 it's 1.2 kbits/s. We have:

Internet speed growth. Table[{1990 + x, 1.2*1.5^x}, {x, 0, 22}]

theoretical speed year kbits/s 1990 1.2 1992 2.7 1994 6.1 1996 13.7 1998 30.8 2000 69.2 2002 155.7 2004 350.3 2006 788.2 2008 1773.5 2010 3990.3 2012 8978.2 2014 20200.9 2016 45452.1 2018 102267.0 2020 230101.0

Here's my internet speed history:

actual speed Year Speed download•upload•ping Connection Type Company and Location 1991 1.2kbps•• Modem 1200 (V.22) 1997 56kbps•• 56k modem 1998 800kbps•• Innetix wireless San Jose (at Brainpower) 1999 280kbps•• alink.net ISDN Mountain View (at Weborder) 2002 880kbps•137• Pacfic Bell ADSL Palo Alto (home) 2003 800kbps•240.1• Cable modem 802.11b wireless Sacramento (Paul K) 2003 980kbps•112• library, wireless Palo Alto 2006 980kbps•• DSL Mountain View (Danny's) 2008 5.2Mbps•• Cable Camcast, Mountain View 2009-09 8.4Mbps•4.6Mbps•17ms Cable Comcast. Mountain View 2010-07 7.0Mbps•3.9Mbps•27ms Cable Comcast. Mountain View 2012-04 9.8Mbps•4.2Mbps•15ms Cable Comcast. Mountain View 2013 22Mbps• Cable Comcast. Mountain View 2014 26Mbps••17ms Cable Comcast. Mountain View 2017-06 28Mbps•4.6Mbps•30ms DSL AT＆T internet 2019-08 26Mbps•4.4Mbps•25ms DSL AT＆T internet 2020-07 106Mbps•5.75Mbps•9ms Cable Comcast. Mountain View

All locations are in California, USA.

kbps = 10^3 bits per second.

Mbps = 10^6 bits per second.

my internet speed, as of 2014-02-16

my internet speed, as of 2015-07

internet speed xah 2017-06-20

internet speed xah 2019-08-13

comcast xfinity speed, Mountain View, California. 2020-07-11

see also: Computer Devices Bandwidth Table