Not a great deal to report on this front from February except for the uninterrupted service. However, I did find out that BT are upgrading my local fibre box which I am told will give even higher download speeds once all updates are complete.
On one of the monitoring days I did see some periods where the meter was reading around 52MB! But it only lasted for a few minutes so it’s not really worth logging that. Of course the next questions is to see what tools can accurately measure these higher speed.
Most of the Broadband speed checkers are nothing more than marketing tools, however there are a few that do seem to be able to give constant feedback such as ttbmeter from ThinkBroadband and the BBC iPlayer speed connection checker. However as I have mentioned in a number of previous posts, the test results you get with these tools does vary according to the age of PC that you use to check it and the quality of the network socket software on your PC.
On a more general front, I see that according to research from regulator Ofcom, the average speed of home broadband is now 12Mbps, the BBC article covering the background can be found here.
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