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Some 4 weeks have now passed since the UK was put into lockdown on 23rd March, although many people had already started working from home and limiting their movements over the prior 2 weeks. As such it’s worth taking a quick look back to see how broadband ISP and mobile speeds, as well as general internet traffic, have changed.<\/p>\n

We’re pleased to see that not a lot has changed over the past month, except the fact that key sections of the mainstream media appear to have finally ended their initially quite inaccurate reporting, which largely concerned the ability of UK broadband and mobile operators to cope with the rise in domestic demand from the Coronavirus<\/strong> crisis (i.e. more adults and children working or playing from home at the same time).<\/p>\n

In the end it was all a bit of a storm in a teacup since both fixed line broadband and mobile network operators promptly adapted without any major problems (see here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>), which will come as no surprise to anybody who actually works in this industry.<\/p>\n

Overall most of the performance changes that have been observed so far were generally fairly small, while consumer gripes continue to exist at around the same level as they did before the lockdown (excluding issues related to delayed installs or similar work, which follows the pause on non-essential engineering visits by many operators).<\/p>\n

Interestingly traffic passing over the London Internet Exchange<\/strong><\/a> (LINX) has actually fallen from its late-March peak over the past couple of weeks (when looking at their primary LON1<\/strong> and LON2<\/strong> switches), which holds true even if we exclude a predictable lull in Easter Weekend traffic. We’re now very much settled into a new normal.<\/p>\n

Some of the aforementioned fall will be down to the sunny weather (i.e. those with gardens are more likely to use them) and the fact that people will have now caught up on any software or games updates that were still pending at the start of the lockdown. Likewise some ISPs have probably further optimised their networks (CDN, caches etc.) to better suit how people are using them.<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> LINX doesn’t provide a complete overview of internet traffic flow from all of the ISPs (e.g. BT<\/a>’s network alone recently saw a peak of 17.5Tbps), but they do offer a useful indication for how such networks are behaving.<\/div>\n

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Meanwhile the latest data from internet speed testing giant Ookla<\/strong> (Speedtest.net – illustrations below), which currently only goes up to the very end of March 2020, suggests that COVID-19 has only had a small impact on consumer UK connection speeds. Otherwise the overall performance trend remains broadly upward over the past year (this is the normal trend as faster connections see greater coverage and take-up).<\/p>\n

One unusual trend is the fall, since around January 2020, in upload speeds for mobile broadband, which doesn’t seem to have changed as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020. But overall the variation seen is only small, albeit consistent for the past couple of months (could be due to an issue with Ookla itself as we see this on the global summary too).<\/p>\n

Take note that the black line at the bottom represents latency (i.e. server response time), which is measured in milliseconds and thus a lower figure here generally means better \/ faster performance. Latency on mobile connections actually seems to be improving, while fixed lines have held fairly level for the past year.<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> Web-based tests like this should always be taken with a pinch of salt as they can suffer from lots of caveats, such as slow WiFi<\/a> and local network congestion etc.<\/div>\n

UK Broadband Speeds (Year to end of March 2020)<\/strong><\/span>
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