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[Bowdon]

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2018/02/virgin-media-average-broadband-speeds-showing-improvement.html

Cable ISP Virgin Media looks to be in a good shape ahead of the forthcoming change in UK advertising rules. The provider has published a monthly update that reveals the “average” speeds of their broadband packages and in most cases they’re now delivering faster than the headline rate.

At present the existing guidance, which has been in place since 2012, requires that any headline broadband speed being promoted by an ISP must be achievable by at least 10% of their users (i.e. the fastest 10% of subscribers) and these figures should be preceded by an “up to” qualifier.

Taking a look at the latest January 2018 update from Virgin Media, which highlights a good improvement over the same results from January 2017. For example, one year ago Virgin’s average download speed at peak time for their 50Mbps tier was 45.94Mbps (now 51.84Mbps), while their 100Mbps package delivered 87.23Mbps (now 101.25Mbps) and 200Mbps produced just 157.58Mbps (now 192.03Mbps).

This is good news that VM are heading in the right direction.

[Ronski]

Certainly is good news, especially as I'm heading in their direction soon.

[Oldjim]

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/7952-peak-and-off-peak-performance-at-the-largest-uk-broadband-providers-in-january-2018
https://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/7923-peak-and-off-peak-performance-at-the-largest-uk-broadband-providers-in-december-2017
Not obvious here

[niemand]

For some unknown reason Think Broadband and VM don't seem to get along. The VM stats are based on data from the Samknows platform.