From the Department of Surprising Rankings: The state of Washington, according to Akamai’s recently published State of the Internet Report [#], has the slowest Internet connectivity speed in the country. It’s been widely known that as a country we pretty much suck at delivering high speed Internet. What’s surprising is that Washingtonians are suffering the most.

If I tried to add anything more to this post it would hang. So, talk amongst yourselves. But not here. I use Qwest and I need the bandwidth. Try picking up a phone.

[Via Ars Technica]

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