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Test the speed of your home broadband and check out the best broadband deals on the market with our guide
Tweet 1) Test your broadband speed
Our home broadband speed test has been designed in conjunction with thinkbroadband. It may take a couple of minutes to run, but should give you a very good indication of your home broadband speed - and whether or not you're getting close to the speeds your ISP has advertised.
However, be aware that the speed we measure is a guide. There are a number of factors that can give you an inaccurate result – for example, accessing our speed checker via a wifi router (where distance and interference can affect the accuracy). The time of day you test your speed can have an effect too.
Most broadband networks suffer from congestion at peak times (for example, 8pm-10pm), so try our speed tester at various different times of day to get a better indication of your average speed. Congestion on this very site may also slow things down, so you could also try some alternative speed checkers such as Broadband Speed Checker and Speedtest.net if you suspect our site might be busy.
This speed measurement tool is an exclusive pre-release of the next generation
broadband speed test
powered by thinkbroadband and designed to test the speed of UK broadband connections.
A mobile app
is also available for phones running the Android operating system.
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2)Check out the best broadband deals Want faster speeds, a greater download allowance, cheaper or more reliable broadband? Maybe you just want to know what tariffs and services other broadband providers are offering? Look no further as below is our guide to some of the best deals out there.These Broadband prices were correct of September 2011.
£3.25/month for 9 months, then £6.50/month for the rest of the 12-month contract, Talk Talk Essentials offers speeds up to 24Mbps with a fairly generous limit of 40GB per month. Not great if you download a lot but a good combination of speed and price. If your cable and exchange can handle it you can get up to an amazingly fast 100Mbps with this Virgin deal. A bit pricey at £35/month but you get unlimited downloads – a good thing too, at these speeds. BE offers no-frills broadband with fast speeds and good customer service. For £22/month you can enjoy up to 24Mbps with low latency. O2 offer ‘unlimited’ broadband at speeds around 20Mbps for roughly £13/month with an unlimited downloads! The catch – you need to be an O2 customer, or the price jumps to a still not-bad £17.50. If you live in the right area (London, Cardiff and a few others at the moment, but growing) and have fibre optic cables linking you BT landline to the exchange, you can try out BT Infinity – up to 40Mbps down and 10Mbps uploads for around £25/month. There is no fixed limit on downloads, though BT reserve the right to throttle speeds if things get out of hand. Check out our broadband Best-Buys |
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