Without broadband speed test tools there would be no way of holding your supplier to account, you just wouldn't know if you were getting the service you are paying for. Your test results will help us compile our monthly speed test results which show the fastest and slowest broadband providers in the UK.To compare your speeds with those of your friends and neighbours.To see if there are faster providers and deals available in your area.To see if your broadband speeds vary at different times of day.To check that your broadband provider is giving you the speeds they should.Here are 5 great reasons to be testing your broadband speed: Why should I be testing my broadband speed? The last available report gave the UK's national average broadband speed as 28.9Mb in November 2015. These are recorded by a different method involving equipment installed in the home to record speeds during day-to-day usage. Ofcom have also published average broadband speeds recorded across the UK, including individual figures for the largest providers, different types of broadband and different types of neighbourhood. Mobile broadband providers and those that only serve business customers are not counted towards the national average figure. Broadband provider is detected by IP address rather than self selection. We record hundreds of thousands of test results every month.

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