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ADSL speeds on the up

Posted by: eusty on Monday, January 29, 2007 - 01:24 PM

Epitiro has named its leading consumer broadband providers for the 4th quarter of 2006 (October-January), with only one change with Orange re-entering the top five.

Overall Ranking	Q3 2006	Q4 2006
1	BT	BT
2	Pipex	Pipex
3	Demon	Orange
4	PlusNet	Demon
5	Virgin	Virgin

Epitiro monitors "customer experience" for internet access services, and collects 622,147 real-time data samples from eleven locations around the UK. From these tests they collate detailed figures on the speed and reliability of Internet connections, how long it takes to connect to the Internet, downloads and uploads and the performance of both ping and DNS lookups.

The average connection speed has seen an increase throughout 2006 and now stands at 5728.3 kbps.

"ISPs are increasing their speeds, which is good news for bandwidth-hungry users,"
"Speeds have increased from 3817.82 kilobytes per second in the third quarter due to new ADSL Max entrants into the ten largest broadband providers. However itâ€™s unlikely that many ADSL Max services will perform at their full capacity of 8Mbps. The speed of broadband service reduces the further the customerâ€™s connection is from their local telephone exchange."

Gavin Johns Epitiro

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