The Fastest 7 National UK Home and Mobile Broadband ISPs for Q4 2014

ISPreview.co.uk takes a look back at how the top fastest and largest national Mobile Broadband (3G/4G) and Home Broadband providers have performed over the last quarter. Overall Virgin Media still tops the fixed line table with an average Internet download speed of 53.20Mbps (unchanged from Q3 2014), while Vodafone delivered the best mobile performance at 13.78Mbps.

Firstly, there have been a few changes since our last quarterly update in October 2014 (here), with Eclipse Internet being removed from the list because theyve stopped selling domestic packages. On top of that weve decided to start tracking the quarterly performance of the four primary Mobile Broadband providers (note: T-Mobile and Orange are aggregated under parent Everything Everywhere).

Overall the performance of the largest national fixed line Home Broadband ISPs (including the impact of related business connections) during the final quarter of 2014 has remained more or less stable, largely because there havent been any major changes in the market since Virgins double-speed upgrade began at the start of this year (this added roughly 10-15Mbps to VMs average download rate, mostly due to their dominant 30Mbps subscriber base being pushed to 50Mbps).

Meanwhile its interesting to note that the speeds for ISPs that offer up to 80Mbps Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) services, particularly BT which holds the lions share of related subscribers, have broadly tended to remain stable and that might be at least partly due to crosstalk interference becoming more of a problem (this can slow FTTC lines in busy areas). The future addition of Vectoring, which is designed to cancel out crosstalk, should have a positive impact (assuming BTOpenreach ever get around to deploying it).

The Fastest UK ISPs Average Download Speed (Megabits per second)

1. Virgin Media 53.20Mbps 2. BT 25.61Mbps 3. Zen Internet 24.22Mbps 4. PlusNet 22.64Mbps 5. TalkTalk 15.25Mbps 6. Sky Broadband 13.59Mbps 7. EE 13.52Mbps

Average Speed = 24Mbps

The Fastest UK ISPs Average Upload Speed

1. BT 7.64Mbps 2. Zen Internet 7.47Mbps 3. PlusNet 6.89Mbps 4. Virgin Media 6.43Mbps 5. Sky Broadband 3.79Mbps 6. EE (Orange) 3.19Mbps 7. TalkTalk 2.73Mbps

Average Speed = 5.45Mbps

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The Fastest 7 National UK Home and Mobile Broadband ISPs for Q4 2014