Data from Ofcom shows the average download speed for home broadband connections in the UK has increased by 10%.
The communications regulator compiles its research based on data from volunteers who connect a monitoring unit to their broadband router; and data supplied directly by broadband providers.
As of September 2022, the average download speed for home broadband connections in the UK was 65.3 Mbit/s, an increase of 10% compared to March 2022. This was largely due to people upgrading to faster services.
Less than 3% of households had average download speeds of less than 10 Mbit/s, with cable connections offering the highest average download speed.
The proportion of homes with broadband connections that use a superfast package (defined as having an advertised download speed of 30 Mbit/s or higher) was 93%. And 10% use ultrafast packages with advertised speeds of 300 Mbit/s or higher.
Prime time is between 20.00 and 22.00 when the average download speed 5% lower.
Of the home broadband packages surveyed by Ofcom, Virgin Media’s 1.1 Gbit/s service had the fastest average download speed at 1,139 Mbit/s, and it also had the joint-fastest average upload speed, with BT’s 300 Mbit/s service, at around 51Mbit/s.
