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December's Broadband Speed League Table

Broadband speed league table - Dec. 2008

Who's been crowned king of speed this month?

Below are the results for December's Ultimate Speed League Table's for up to 2Mbps and up to 8Mbps!

Using the results from our free speed tester, we have calculated the average speed of each provider so you can see who wins first prize for their speeds...


Medium Broadband

This table compares broadband suppliers with medium broadband packages of up to 8Mbps.

Provider Average Mbps
1 Karoo (Kingston Upon Hull area only) 4.7
2 O2 Broadband 4.3
3 Sky Broadband 3.7
4 Eclipse 3.7
5 Plusnet 3.5
6 TalkTalk 3.5
7 Supanet 3.2
8 BT Broadband 3.1

Light Packages

This table compares suppliers and their light broadband packages of up to 2Mbps.

Provider Average Mbps
1 Virgin Media 1.6
2 Orange 1.5
3 Tiscali (Now owned by TalkTalk) 1.4
4 Sky Broadband 1.4

These tables use data collected from December 2008, and use data only from providers who have done 1000 or more tests over the month. None of the results have been deleted, adapted or manipulated – these tables display honest results and allow you to see the truth behind your ISP’s claims.

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Comments

hi,
the old packages of karoo were up to 8Mb/s.The latest ones are sold as adsl2+ and they say you can expect up to 24Mb/s.I wonder if your tests were only made on the old packages and would be happy to see the same test results for adsl2+ to compare to other providers (with surely not the same ranking).The upload speed should also appear and be part of the comparaison as more and more people need higher upload for online gaming.The higher upload you can expect from karoo for an adsl2+ connection is 1Mb/s,in fact the upload of a 8Mb/s connection.
Best regards. - Jan 22 2009 1:07PM
virgile auber, hull

I am with Karoo in Hull and i get solid 10mbps on conection speed and I am 1.7 Km away from my exchange. This is on adsl2 over normal copper wire. So for all you moaners wanting another ISP in HULL, i dont know why as karoo provide the better speeds. - Jan 22 2009 12:45PM
I average 5+ Mbps on a copper BT line which is about 500m from exchange as crow flies. Your table is not comparing like with like. The BT figure includes users in remote rural areas which the 'cherry picking' competitive companies are not interested in and you make no mention of contention ratios or reliability. Why have a Trabant if one can afford a Bentley? - Jan 12 2009 5:14PM
John Williams, Warrington Cheshire

In December I upgraded to Tiscali's 8mb service as we couldn't get speeds high enough on the 2Mb package to view the BBC I player. But even with the 8mb package evening speeds have barely scraped above 1.5 MB and last night I recorded 325KB with www.speedtest.net. Complete pants eh! - Jan 12 2009 12:25PM
Jeff Hampson, UK

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