Virgin Media shows prominence in speed tests

Virgin Media leads in the number of tests over 150 Mbps.

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Analysis by BroadbandUK of speed tests run in the first four weeks of 2021 shows Virgin Media dominating the tests at speeds over 150 Mbps.

BroadbandUK's broadband speed test ran nearly 175,000 tests in the first four weeks of January 2021. Of these 9,665 showed download speeds of over 150 Mbps. Virgin Media dominated the ISPs in the above 150 Mbps download range, with 68.8% of the tests from Virgin.

The top ten speed tests run in the period were as follows all speeds in Mbps:-
1,770 UK Dedicated Servers Limited
1,493 Amazon.com
1,392 Rackspace Ltd.
1,375 Microsoft Corporation
1,366 Microsoft Corporation
1,298 Amazon.com
1,289 NVIDIA Ltd
1,211 Virgin Media
1,128 Sky Broadband
1,117 Sky Broadband

A total of 1,185 different ISPs were identified in the four week period.

BroadbandUK is an independent hub of broadband information for consumers.

BroadbandUK's services include https://www.broadbandspeedtest.org.uk/ (which ran over 1.5 million broadband speed tests in 2020) and the only address level accurate broadband price comparison service in the UK https://www.broadbandproviders.co.uk

 



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