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For a nation whose indentity is increasingly known for technological innovation, it comes as a bit of a surprise that the United States' average download speed ranks far outside the top 10 for countries worldwide. A new infographic from Webhostingbuzz--a company that provides various web hosting services--ranks download speeds in the U.S. at 30th in the world behind such plugged-in countries like Lithuania (no.2), Latvia (no. 3), and Moldova (no. 8). South Korea, as you can see above, comes in at number one. The Aland Islands are also up there. Those, in case you were wondering, are some bits of land in the Baltic Sea belonging to Finland.

It's worth noting that these rankings have come out before with some subtle differences each time. A report by the Communications Workers of America a few years ago put the United States at 28th in the world, according to the AFP. South Korea was also the leader in that study. Net Index, a site connected to the web diagnostics company Ookla, has a chart that shows Latvia, Moldova and Lithuania in the top ten as well, with the United States at 29. But South Korea consistently comes out on top: even President Obama noted that "South Korean homes now have greater Internet access than we do" in his State of the Union address in January.