Posted: 04th Nov, 2008 By: MarkJ
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Broadband.co.uk has released its latest anecdotal monthly broadband speed testing results for October, which show that
Virgin Media has maintained its top position with an average of 5.77Mbps. However
O2 (
Be Broadband) still holds a commanding lead for upstream speeds of 0.773Mbps.
Interestingly
Eclipse Internet (KCOM Group) has seen average speeds improve by over a third, which is likely due to the release of their new 'up to' 24Mbps ADSL2+ based broadband deals. We've reorganised the results into a Top 10 below:
AOL has continued to struggle with their speed performance and the results of
TalkTalk saw a drop from September too. The average over all tests was a download speed of 3.325Mbps, which is now the third monthly drop in a row since July 2008's average of 3.609Mbps.