nPerf Ranks Fastest UK Fixed Broadband ISPs by Nation and Speed

Internet connection benchmarking firm nPerf has today published the results from a new crowdsourced study into fixed broadband ISP speeds across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. But oddly the results only cover Sky Broadband, Virgin Media, Vodafone, TalkTalk, Fibrus (NI) and Ogi (Wales).

The latest nPerf study is based on speedtests that were carried out – between 1st January and 31st December 2024 – exclusively by end-customers using tools on both nPerf’s website and via their dedicated mobile testing apps for Android and iOS. But we don’t get any hard stats on the sample sizes or structure.

However, in a somewhat unusual outcome, the UK’s largest broadband provider – BT (inc. EE and Plusnet) – is nowhere to be found in any of the summaries. The company added that they “only include national internet service providers with a test share above 5%“, which suggests that BT somehow ended up, in every nation, with a very small sample of results and that seems questionable.

Suffice to say that we recommend taking these results, which we’ve summarised below, with a pinch of salt. But you can also read the individual reports here for more detail.