We believe that it's a conflict of interest when Internet service providers operate their own speed tests. A third party opinion is necessary and the provider shouldn't be allowed anywhere near the process. When providers host their own speed tests they eliminate the variables that you're here to test. Namely the Internet route itself. This test is unbiased, it tests and grades all providers on the same criteria. They want you to think your connection is running perfectly... but is it really?
Birmingham BIR, GB Speed Test
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Do you want to research connection speed for Birmingham BIR, GB? TestMy.net's Download Speed Test and Upload Speed Test log connection information to allow users to research real world Internet speed test results. TestMy.net's speed test database stores information on millions of Internet connections. This tool can average connection speed for any Internet provider, country or city in the world. So you can easily average speed test results, compare maximum speeds, research logged results and find the fastest ISPs for Birmingham BI.
Top ISP Rank |
| 1 | Virgin Media | 90.7 Mbps 122 Mbps 31 Mbps 1065 clients took 938 tests recently |
| 2 | Sky Broadband | 68.4 Mbps 108 Mbps 14 Mbps 527 clients took 251 tests recently |
| 3 | BT | 48.1 Mbps 52 Mbps 14 Mbps 684 clients took 657 tests recently |
| 4 | Three | 43.8 Mbps 53 Mbps 16 Mbps 594 clients took 1023 tests recently |
| 5 | TalkTalk | 43.3 Mbps 61 Mbps 13 Mbps 330 clients took 255 tests recently |
| 6 | Telefonica O2 | 18.5 Mbps 25 Mbps 6 Mbps 743 clients took 351 tests recently |
Real Speed Test
Other speed tests, especially tests offered by your Internet provider try to eliminate routing factors. This can make your connection appear faster than it really is. If you visit many websites in the North America, Europe, Australia or Asia the results returned here will be a more realistic representation of your useable connection. Truthfully, do you want to know how fast your connection is within your providers network or do you want to know how fast it is to the locations where the websites you visit are being hosted? TestMy.net is not a best case scenario connection test and will test your Internet under real world conditions. [read more] [hide text]