It came last in speed tests of the ten biggest broadband providers carried out by SamKnows for the BBC ’s Watchdog programme . The company also scored poorly for latency but did well in upload speed tests . Meanwhile the rest of us tend to conduct a Broadband Speedtest by using one of the many web-based solutions, although SamKnows has claimed that the accuracy of those can sometimes struggle to produce reliable results for the new generation of Gigabit (1Gbps) or even multi-Gigabit “full fibre” Virgin Media came first overall . It uses a direct method of sampling that 's regarded as delivering very accurate results , but the small sample size means the results give a narrow overview .
It came last in speed tests of the ten biggest broadband providers carried out by SamKnows for the BBC ’s Watchdog programme . The company also scored poorly for latency but did well in upload speed tests . Virgin Media came first overall . It uses a direct method of sampling that 's regarded as delivering very accurate results , but the small sample size means the results give a narrow overview .