SpeedOfMe Ranks UK 14th Fastest in World for Broadband Speeds in H1 2026 UPDATE

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1. simon says:

   July 21, 2026 at 8:41 am

   came out of no where – claims to be accurate right from the browser.

   Yeah. This is 10gbps symmertical https://i.speedof.me/260721073920-415 1.1Gbps ddown – 201Mbps up

   Maybe the results should be ignored and this little site should go back into the corner -they aren’t no Ookla! It’s main goal seems to be flooding people with nord.vpn offers too!

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   1. Mark says:

      July 21, 2026 at 12:55 pm

      this site is shocking.

      I’m on ethernet, and it says my download is 400meg down and 200 meg up..

      the ookla desktop app gives me 817 down and 923 up, which is much more like what I’d expect from my 1gb hyperoptic service.

      and i tested this in a teams meeting with video on!

   2. Jack says:

      July 21, 2026 at 1:54 pm

      https://i.speedof.me/260721124438-356 says a download of 845meg / 172meg up.

      Same machine, same wired connection but using speedtests cli instead https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/fb6359bf-50b9-4bad-89af-aa1a8b281343 2132mbps down / 2135mbps up.

   3. Jack says:

      July 21, 2026 at 2:37 pm

      Doh, pasted the wrong speedtest link, I was testing other server than the recommend test server 😛 https://www.speedtest.net/result/d/c0338cd8-1916-4110-92c9-cf544814e58b Download Mbps 2,091.47 Upload Mbps 2,154.66

      slightly slower on the download than the test I ran before (I closed the cli since – don’t recall if the cli app retains past speed results so just ran it again)

   4. jacob.gem says:

      July 21, 2026 at 4:15 pm

      I don’t think this can be compared with ookla results. they have different methods

   5. Speedof.Me team says:

      July 24, 2026 at 12:29 am

      Hi all, Speedof.Me team here. Thanks for the coverage and the blunt feedback; most of it is fair, so here is the straight answer.

      The multi-gig results (Simon, Mark, Jack): correct, and a known property of our method. Our test runs one sustained stream in the browser, deliberately. One stream cannot fill a 2 to 10 Gbps line, so on those connections we undersell the ceiling; a multi-stream native app opens many parallel connections and gets much closer to it, and for measuring a multi-gigabit line’s maximum that is honestly the better tool. Neither number is wrong: multi-stream estimates your line’s peak capacity, a single stream shows what one transfer typically sustains, which is closer to what a page load or download actually feels like.

      jacob.gem has it exactly right, and that is also the answer to Paul on Singapore: the two indexes measure different things, so they rank differently by design. Singapore sells the world’s fastest plans and tops the on-net, multi-stream, fixed-only index. Our ranking is one stream to neutral CDN servers on the open internet, all devices blended, so it rewards the everyday route rather than the local sprint. Both are true answers to different questions.

      Carlconradw’s point stands too: browser tests include the tester’s Wi-Fi and hardware, so housing stock and take-up shape the medians, as Mark’s write-up says. It is a panel of real testers, not a national census, and we publish it as such.

      MilesT: agreed, and noted; we are exploring connection-type and device splits for the next edition. On retail vs wholesale from the article: fair hit, and we shipped a curated retail-only ISP list in July after exactly that feedback.

      We wrote up the full method comparison, including where our own ruler falls short: https://speedof.me/real-world-speed

   6. Jack says:

      July 27, 2026 at 9:39 pm

      @Speedof.Me team

      If I pull a single file, using a single TCP connection from thinkbroadband speedtest files (ttp://ipv4.download.thinkbroadband.com/5GB.zip) using curl, I hit my package speed limit of 2.2gbps. Thats a single file, on a single connection, If your pipe can’t handle pushing data thats a you problem, not a me problem.

      But even as you state, using multiple connections is closer to real world traffic then downloading a single file to judge line speed, heck even loading the bbc homepage makes over 100 requests. We don’t live in a single connection world, never have!

2. MilesT says:

   July 21, 2026 at 8:58 am

   Speedofme could easily capture data which splits out underlying technology i.e. VDSL, ADSL, 4G 5G 5G+, Fibre and high speed Coax (just ask the person performing the test).

   Ditto “have you subscribed to the fastest service available to you” (and capture speed/technology of fastest available in a structured way).

   all of which would produce more interesting and useful rankings; some of the countries are more likely inherently “fastest available” due to lack of choice.

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3. Carlconradw says:

   July 21, 2026 at 9:44 am

   Any such study as this comes with a host of problems. As has been noted in this website before, it measures on what speed one gets in a particular room if you’re on WiFi. In my house, which is a narrow 4 storey house in a city, the ultrafast broadband comes in at basement level where I get 500 Mbps. However, on the top floor it reduces to 30 Mbps. 4 storey houses are less common, but our towns and cities have many stone built Victorian homes which create similar transmission problems. In Europe, most families live in apartments where the measured speed is more consistent with that at the point of entry. Apples and pears.

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4. Paul says:

   July 21, 2026 at 3:57 pm

   The accuracy of speedof.me is shocking. This table of results is basically trash. UK has faster broadband speeds than Singapore? Give me a break!

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