Google lights a prairie fire in Kansas
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.tellusventure.com/blog/images/2013/5/akamai_ca_ks_4q2013.jpg?w=1100&ssl=1)
Kansas kicks it up.
Average Internet download speeds over the entire state of Kansas jumped by 86% in 2012, according to the State of the Internet tracking report from Akamai, a content delivery network pioneer.
To be sure, Akamai’s study relies on its own observed traffic and more or less ignores low speed, sub-256 Kbps connections, which would bring the average down. But its methodology is reasonably consistent across geographic markets and provides a fair basis for making comparisons.… More