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Average broadband performance below peak expected of ISPs, Netflix warns

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  • 23-12-2012 5:27pm
    #1
    bealtine
    Registered Users Posts: 4,051 ✭✭✭


    Tables in the article

    http://www.siliconrepublic.com/comms/item/30849-average-broadband/


    From this month onwards Netflix will publish monthly rankings of ISPs in the UK and Ireland based on their “actual performance” and already the survey reveals that services across the islands are well below peak performance.

    In the UK Virgin led the field with 2.24Mbps average speeds for Netflix streams followed by O2, BT, BSkyB, TalkTalk and Everything Everywhere (EE). For mobile, Vodafone was the lead provider in the UK with a consistent rate of 0.50Mbps, followed by O2, EE and 3.

    In terms of Ireland the league table was led by UPC with an average speed of 2.2Mbps for Netflix streams in November, followed by Magnet, Imagine, Eircom, Digiweb and UPC.

    In terms of performance over mobile broadband Vodafone led the list of 0.51Mbps for Netflix streams in November.

    The online video service has 30m members worldwide viewing over 1bn hours of Netflix and so claims to have reliable data for consumers to compare ISPs in terms of real world performance.

    “The average performance is well below the peak performance due to a variety of factors including home Wi-Fi, a wide variety of devices with different capabilities, and a variety of encodes that Netflix uses for streaming TV shows and movies,” Greg Peter, president of product development at Netflix.

    “The relative ranking, however, is an accurate indicator of the quality and consistency of internet access typically experienced across all users, homes, and applications,” Peter added.


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    stimpson
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    bealtine wrote: »
    In terms of Ireland the league table was led by UPC with an average speed of 2.2Mbps for Netflix streams in November, followed by Magnet, Imagine, Eircom, Digiweb and UPC.

    I always found UPC to be much faster than UPC. :confused:


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    bealtine
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    stimpson wrote: »
    I always found UPC to be much faster than UPC. :confused:

    ja obviously a typo...look at the crappy showing of the mobile telcos:)


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    bealtine
    Registered Users Posts: 4,051 ✭✭✭bealtine


    http://ukirelandblog.netflix.com/2012/12/november-isp-rankings-for-uk-and-ireland.html


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    belcampprisoner
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 698 ✭✭✭belcampprisoner


    eircom about 735k in america i run about 12 mb if i had cable the he average is 20 mb


    and thats lower than most people


    eircom broadband should be shut down

    google brought in fiber to kansas


    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20324072


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    BostonB
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    Eircom stifled all competition for many years and did nothing with the network. As a result its in tatters.

    Eircom couldn't or wouldn't fix my line for data. So I have no choice but UPC. I sure many people are in the same boat, unable to get a good connection and stuck with no choice of provider.


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