The interesting thing that I'm taking from this is that The United States is not nearly as far behind other countries (average bandwidth wise) as some would have you believe.
In fact, our average bandwidth seemed to be about exactly the same as the other counties.
Average bandwidth appears to be the same among people who use Netflix but this set of people is not necessarily a good representative sample of all the people in the United States. Many areas have such terrible internet service that Netflix doesn't buffer well enough to be worth paying for. These connections clearly wouldn't be on Netflix's chart and therefore not contributing to the statistics.
In fact, our average bandwidth seemed to be about exactly the same as the other counties.