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According to the latest monthly anecdotal consumer broadband ISP speed testing data from Broadband.co.uk<\/a>, which covers the month of April 2012, the average internet download speed<\/strong> in the UK has continued to climb from 14.12Mbps (Megabits per second) in April 2012 to 15,286Mbps <\/strong>now.<\/p>\n

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The national average upload speed<\/strong> has also increased again from 1.904Mbps to 2.291Mbps<\/strong> over the same period. Most of these rises continue to come from the increasing uptake of superfast broadband services by Virgin Media<\/a>, BT<\/a> and Eclipse Internet. As more ISPs launch similar services then the upward trend will grow, but remove their disproportionate impact<\/strong> and you\u2019re still left with a situation where most ISPs deliver woeful averages of 5-7Mbps.<\/p>\n

Otherwise there’s no change at the top from last month. Cable operator Virgin Media<\/a> remains the fastest broadband ISP<\/strong> for download performance, by a significant margin, and BT<\/a> holds the top spot for upload speed. The rest trail a long way behind.<\/p>\n

Top 9 UK ISPs \u2013 Download Speed (Megabits\/sec)<\/strong>
\n1. Virgin Media<\/a> \u2013 24.338Mbps
\n2. BT<\/a> \u2013 14.557Mbps
\n3. Eclipse Internet \u2013 12.941Mbps
\n4. PlusNet<\/a> \u2013 6.595Mbps
\n5. O2<\/a> (BE Broadband) \u2013 6.437Mbps
\n6. Sky Broadband<\/a> \u2013 5.811Mbps
\n7. TalkTalk<\/a> \/ Tiscali \u2013 5.259Mbps
\n8. Orange UK \u2013 4.469Mbps
\n9. AOL \u2013 4.282Mbps<\/p>\n

Top 9 UK ISPs \u2013 Upload Speed (Megabits\/sec)<\/strong>
\n1. BT \u2013 3.745Mbps
\n2. Virgin Media \u2013 2.663Mbps
\n3. Eclipse Internet \u2013 2.483Mbps
\n4. O2<\/a> (BE Broadband) \u2013 0.895Mbps
\n5. Sky Broadband<\/a> \u2013 0.649Mbps
\n6. PlusNet<\/a> \u2013 0.637Mbps
\n7. AOL \u2013 0.608Mbps
\n8. Orange UK \u2013 0.588Mbps
\n9. TalkTalk<\/a> \/ Tiscali \u2013 0.570Mbps<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Readers should take anecdotal data like this with a huge pinch of salt. Every home is different and performance can be affected by all sorts of things, most of which are beyond the ISPs control. We do not consider the above table to be a reliable barometer for individual users but it can help to reflect overall market changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to the latest monthly anecdotal consumer broadband ISP speed testing data from Broadband.co.uk, which covers the month of April 2012, the average internet download speed in the UK has continued to climb from 14.12Mbps (Megabits per second) in April 2012 to 15,286Mbps now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-statistics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"\nTop 9 UK Fastest Broadband ISPs by Speed for May 2012 - ISPreview UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"According to the latest monthly anecdotal consumer broadband ISP speed testing data from Broadband.co.uk, which covers the month of April 2012, the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/06\/top-9-uk-fastest-broadband-isps-by-speed-for-may-2012.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Top 9 UK Fastest Broadband ISPs by Speed for May 2012 - 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