See Every Single Device Connected to the Internet

[A Guy]

A map of every device connected to the Internet shows the wealthiest parts of the world flush with connections, while poor and sparsely populated parts of the world are blacked out — as well as a few head scratchers in between.

The map was created by John Matherly, founder of Shodan, a search engine that probes the Internet’s backend for connections to all sorts of devices from routers to refrigerators. Matherly said it took about five hours to ping every IP address on the Internet and store every positive response. It took another 12 hours to plot the responses on a heat map which glows bright orange in densely connected areas and blue and black in sparsely connected areas.

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[essenbe]

I want his computer, if he can ping every IP address on the Planet in 5 hours. I bet his fingers were tired. But, I think that's pretty cool. A few places surprise me.

 

[Stephanie]

I thought there would be more ! :shock:

 

[Pendaws]

Australia is sparse but that's expected, we have isolated pockets. More than 80% of the country is not used.

 

[jadinolf]

Still looking for my computer.

 

[DocBrown]

These guys are wondering where their glowing lights are ?

 

[Fantail]

The US looks like a pork chop.

 

[RoasterMen]

Internet in Antartica? OOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[A Guy]

A Guy

 

[alikhan]

I am disappointed to see Australia in not dark red. I guess Australia can be made an exception as broadband rates are higher and speed lower.

 

[Golden]

I am disappointed to see Australia in not dark red. I guess Australia can be made an exception as broadband rates are higher and speed lower.

Nothing surprising about that....we only have a population of approximately 22 million, of which 10 million are within a 100km radius of Sydney. Most of Australia is uninhabited.

Broadband rates/speed has nothing to do with it.

 

[essenbe]

Spoken by the Master. When Golden speaks, everybody listens.

 

[Golden]

Ping.!

 

[Barman58]

One thing that does come to mind, pinging a lot of devices will result in a 100% packet loss, this is by design for security purposes so many of the available IPv4 addresses will appear to be unused even when they are actually in use

Most routers will have an option to "not respond to ping on WAN interface" or similar, this option will cause the ping request from the external device not to be answered this giving the impression that there is no device connected. the reasoning behind this facility is that a lot of malicious hackers will ping multiple IP ranges and then concentrate on those that reply showing that there is a device connected

 

[RoasterMen]

I am disappointed to see Australia in not dark red. I guess Australia can be made an exception as broadband rates are higher and speed lower.

You don't want Australians to live in the middle part do you? It's very hot in the middle part you know?

 

[boogieboy]

wow USA and EU is on Fire!