Netflix Reports Increased ISP Speeds for Streaming

ISPs provided significant increases in average speeds for Netflix streaming since November 2013. In the U.S., the average speed for the top 10 cable and fiber ISPs increased to 3.07 Mbps, up from 2.03 Mbps in the same period last year, Netflix said Monday in a blog post. That's due in part to Cablevision, Charter, Cox and other ISPs increasing their average speeds significantly "without requiring additional payment to reach mutual customers," it said. "Additional interconnect capacity also helped normalize performance across these ISPs." In the U.K., speeds increased from 2.62 Mbps in November 2013 to 3.31 Mbps since then, it said.