In a Thursday blog post, online video biggie Netflix published its list of highest-performing US Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in terms of their performance in delivering the company's online streaming videos between October 1 and November 15.

The top performer named by Netflix was Charter Communications, which received the highest scores for delivering high-speed as well as better-resolution videos. The other top-rankers on the Netflix list of 16 ISPs were Time Warner Cable, Comcast, Cox, and Suddenlink; followed by Cablevision, Cable One, Verizon, AT&T, and BellSouth.

Wireless firm Clearwire ranked last on the Netflix list.

According to the details shared by Netflix, Charter Communications, Comcast, and Time Warner managed to deliver streams of nearly 2,600 to 2,700 kilobits per second, by mid-November.

Talking about the test of the ISPs' performance in delivering Netflix content, Ken Florance, director of content delivery for Netflix, said in a blog post: "The throughput we are able to achieve with these streams can tell us a great deal about the actual capacity our subscribers are able to sustain to their homes."

About the mechanism used for testing the performance of the ISPs, Florance said: "In the charts . we're using a time-weighted bitrate metric to represent the effective data throughput our subscribers receive over many of the top ISPs."