New survey shows O2 in top five broadband list
Wednesday 13 February 2008
A new survey conducted by Epitiro's ISP-I technology has found that
O2, a relatively new company in broadband (setting up its service last October) as been marked as one of the top five consumer ADSL broadband providers in the UK.
Marked up for technical performance in the second half of 2007 in Epitiro's ADSL Internet Performance Indicator (IPI) Report, O2 slotted into the chart just behind
PlusNet,
BT topped the bill with
Tiscali and
Orange also achieving top five status.
The results were compiled after six months of technical testing where 11 of the competing ADSL broadband providers were check every fifteen minutes from the end-users' perspective. Particular attention was paid to collection information on connection speed, reliability of internet connection, and download, upload, ping and domain name service (DNS) performance.
Speaking on the survey, Epitiro's Managing Director told Computeractive: "While many customers are choosing their service provider on price alone, an increasing number seem to be choosing their service on download speeds, and judging their selection of company on crude online speed tests. Both approaches could lead to disappointment. It's important to remember that download speed is just one indicator of broadband performance. Other factors such as the reliability and quality of the network connection are just as important as speed when judging an internet service."
