Comparison site broadband.co.uk has released its latest anecdotal monthly broadband speed testing results for February 2009, which show that Virgin Media continues to hold its top position with an average download speed of 6.127Mbps (6.018Mbps in Jan'09).

Close rival O2 (Be Broadband) also managed to retain second place and even clawed back some speed, hitting 5.735Mbps in comparison to last month’s 5.319Mbps. They also remained in top position for upload performance with 0.755Mbps:


The average download speed of all UK tests combined was 3.833Mbps, which is a strong improvement over January's 3.659Mbps and puts the country on target for a 4Mbps average. Most ISPs seemed to gain some speed this month with very few suffering a decline.