Broadband speeds increasing
A new survey by Broadband.co.uk reported that the average broadband connection speed across the UK increased by over 22% over the course of 2009.
The analyst claims to test thousands of connections over the country on a monthly basis and reported that the speed rose up to 4.478Mbps in December 2009 from the lower rate of 3.67Mbps a year ago in December of 2008.
Broadband.co.uk also reported that Virgin Media?s average speed is 7.425Mpbs which is significantly lower than the amount of time it advertises although they were still able to beat out the other broadband suppliers across the UK for the title of the fastest provider.
Be Broadband and O2 placed in second possition with an average broadband speed of 5.143 Mbps which gives Virgin Media a large edge.
However, in terms of improvement over the year Plusnet topped the list with a 28% increase in average speeds and BT came in second place with an increase year on year of 24%.
Edd Dawson, the editor of the website, stated the reports show that companies that rolled out new products over the year showed the most improvement although the course of the product?s performance over 2010 will be interesting to watch.
The slowest provider on the list was AOL with speeds that barely managed to meet the minimum speeds of 2Mbps. AOL also made the list as the slowest on upload speeds at a mere .315Mbps compared to the top finisher BE and O2 which offer average upload speeds of .753Mbps
