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France-based internet connection benchmarking firm nPerf has this morning published the results from their annual 2026 crowdsourced study into fixed broadband ISP speeds across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The results cover Sky Broadband, Virgin Media, Vodafone, TalkTalk, Fibrus (NI) and Ogi (Wales).
The latest nPerf studies (here, here, here and here) are based on masses of tests carried out – between January and December 2025 – exclusively by customers of the aforementioned internet providers – using tools on both nPerf’s website and via their dedicated mobile testing apps for Android and iOS. But we don’t get any hard stats on the sample sizes or structure.
However, the UK’s largest broadband provider – BT (inc. EE and Plusnet) – is nowhere to be found in any of the summaries. The company states that they “only include national internet service providers with a test share above 5%“, which suggests that BT somehow ended up, in every nation, with a very small sample of results and that seems implausible.
Suffice to say that we recommend taking these results, which we’ve summarised below, with a pinch of salt. Overall, Virgin Media scored the highest in England and Scotland, while Vodafone came top for Northern Ireland and Wales.
