Netflix has rated speeds from internet service providers during the month of April, and doesn’t it figure Google Fiber comes out on top at an average of 3.41Mbps (Megabytes Per Second). Listed second, Cablevision tops other cable providers with an average of 2.41Mbps, and Cox follows closely behind with 2.31Mbps. Charter Communications and Mediacom both saw their rankings improved in April, while Verizon’s FiOS and Comcast both dropped a notch in ranking. Additional Netflix speed index info can be found at ISPSpeedIndex.Netflix.com. On the page, you can view speed indexes from several countries including US, UK, Ireland, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway and Mexico.
“The Netflix ISP Speed Index is based on data from the more than 36 million Netflix members who view over 1 billion hours of TV shows and movies streaming from Netflix per month.”
The listed speeds, according to Netflix, are based on an “average performance” of all Netflix streams on each internet service provider’s network.
Source: Netflix Blog