The latest monthly broadband speed test results from Broadband.co.uk once again see Virgin Media topping the broadband speeds list.
The broadband speed test results are collected from the broadband speed tests performed in January 2010.
Below are the average broadband speeds recorded for 10 of the UK’s broadband providers.
Virgin Media – 7.651Mb
O2 ( Be Broadband ) – 5.113Mb
TalkTalk – 3.628Mb
Sky Broadband – 3.336Mb
Eclipse Internet – 3.106Mb
Orange – 3.055Mb
BT – 2.982Mb
Tiscali – 2.788Mb
PlusNet – 2.732Mb
AOL – 2.131Mb
It is little surprise to see Virgin Media still placed up at the top, with their fibre optic broadband network they are able to offer much faster broadband speeds, with their headline deal offering up to 50Mb broadband.
We envisage that we will start to see other broadband speeds to increase for other broadband providers who use the BT Wholesale network as BT have started the roll out of BT Infinity, their own fibre broadband network.
The average broadband speed achieved across the broadband providers tested was 4.275Mb, this is in fact a 0.2Mb broadband speed decrease on the December 2009 speed test results.