Ofcom has given its official support to the Samknows broadband Performance Monitoring project, which we've previously reported on here and here. The regulator will use this same data to help it publish a comprehensive broadband speed survey:


The system installs a special (highly modified Linksys WRT54GL router) unit into the broadband customer’s network, which monitors the real world performance of the connection and reports back. Samknows currently has 1000 units installed and is fast heading towards its next target of 2000.

Ofcom was unable to offer a precise date for when its own interpretation of the latest data would surface, except to say "within the next few months". The first small scale sample report from August is linked within the first paragraph of this news item.