A report released last week by Web hosting company Akamai Technologies has listed Berkeley, CA as the fastest city according to Internet speeds. Other notable cities on the list included: Chapel Hill, NC, Stanford, CA, Durham, NC, and Ithaca, NY, according to The Daily Californian (UC Berkeley's campus paper).
One obvious distinction these cities share is that they all house a major research university. Akamai realizes the findings are probably skewed because of this, noting that the rankings are likely more representative of campus speeds than local residential broadband.
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