The Best UK ISPs for Streaming According to Netflix

If Netflix is one of the things you enjoy, it turns out that Virgin offers the fastest average speed.

In May there were seven ISPs listed, but there are only 6 in July as Dodo and Primus are now lumped in together.

Netflix has released its new monthly rankings of Australian internet service providers’ (ISPs) download speeds for video streamed from its servers and has found that Telstra is the worst-performing of the six it samples. “Faster Netflix performance generally means better picture quality, quicker start times and fewer interruptions”.

Wright wrote that: “Given the way the rankings came out in the Netflix index I thought it might benefit from some explanation”.

Indeed, the rankings over time have grown less and less useful given ISP performance is clumped closely together, and can be dramatically altered depending on whether an ISP has struck a direct interconnection deal with Netflix, or has signed up for Netflix’s Open Connect content delivery network.

For the month, Cox supplied an average Netflix streaming speed (during primetime) of 3.62 Mbps, just ahead of Cablevision Systems (3.59 Mbps) and Verizon FiOS (3.54 Mbps).

“We have a comprehensive program of ongoing upgrades to the network across Australia”.

While Telstra’s average streaming speed may seem low, it’s not necessarily representative of the connection speeds all customers are getting.