Steam Now Lets You Compare Download Speeds With The Rest Of The World

Steam Now Lets You Compare Download Speeds With The Rest Of The World

Annoyed with your crappy internet provider, bad connection and slow download speeds? Well, as Steam’s stats show, you are not alone.

Spotted by r/steam and r/games, the Steam Global Traffic Map’s newly-implemented feature lets you look at a list of average download rates for each country, grouped by service providers. So you could, for example, head over to the interactive map and click on the state of New York to get this:

Steam Now Lets You Compare Download Speeds With The Rest Of The World

Or click on some middle-of-nowhere Eastern Bloc country and get this:

Steam Now Lets You Compare Download Speeds With The Rest Of The World

Click here if you wanna play around with the map yourself. Should be a fun diversion, at least for a couple minutes. The highlights? Probably Japan and, as Kotaku reader Bloodr0se points out, South Korea:

Steam Now Lets You Compare Download Speeds With The Rest Of The World
Steam Now Lets You Compare Download Speeds With The Rest Of The World

Damn.


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