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A survey of broadband speeds across the UK has found some enormous differences in average speed, with average street connection speeds varying from just 0.13mbps all the way up to a whopping 70.9mbps.
The extreme low was registered by the poor residents of Cromarty Road in Stamford, with the Lincolnshire town earning the shameful prize of being the slowest street for broadband speed in the UK. The highest average speed was clocked by users in Willowfield, Telford, who must all now be seeing their house prices and rents rise by a few percentage points.
And it’s the random nature of these results that must frustrate users the most. Essex seaside town Southend-on-Sea features in third place in terms of the fastest connections, while nearby Clacton sits in the bottom five with an average of just 0.26mbps. [Independent]
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No surprise really.
Not surprised.
I have the fastest my phone line will do, which is 13Mbps down and 1.1Mbps up. It’s taken lots of fiddling to get there!
I pay £7.50pm.
I would gladly pay upto ten times as much to get faster… but is there VM Cable or OpenReach FTTC/FTTP in my area? Nope. shut up and take my money.jpg
Ditto, except I’ve only got 1-1.5Mbps down and 256kbps up. It took me twenty hours to download a 7Gb game, and FOUR freaking days to upload my 3.5 gigs of photos to skydrive. It’s beyond a fookin joke!
I downloaded 7 GB of porn once in under 10 minutes. Happy times.
why download when you can stream?!
i do have the downloaded one for an emergency, yes an emergency, you all know, you’ve been there
Use and abuse. I try to get as much out of the scenes before dumping them in the trash icon.
Emergency? Yes I understand
One or several videos there for a quick “fix”.
Most of the sites that I use to stream have okay/decent quality but still not good enough. I download HD versions for the best visual quality, hence the best boner.
Agree completely and very unfair. I live about 15 miles from Stamford and can agree completely. We get a very painful 0.5m down and 0.25m up speed and that is on a promised 1m business broadband deal.
It makes sending emails to customers a joke sometimes, usually I get everything ready to send and hit the send button as I leave the office at night.
I live out in the sticks and was stuck with 0.2Mbps for years, then BT introduced infinity and I’m now getting around 71Mbps – I consider myself extremely lucky to have this, but can’t help feeling that the UK are still miles behind other countries.
Not as far as you might think, every country is dealing with the same issues and even places like Korea that pumped hundreds of billions into it don’t have 100% coverage.
You lucky, lucky bastard. We have a 1MB line, factor in contention with shitty old cables and we actually get about 800kB, actual downloads are at 80-90kb/s
Fuck the countryside, yo, good to hear at least somewhere in the middle of nowhere managed to convince BT to stick in Infinity
If ISP’s could only charge you based on your average connection speed, that might change a few things. At least then you would have to pay through the nose for next to nothing.
For me i’m not so worried, just had a mail from Virgin saying that my connection’s been boosted to 100Mb for free!! Since my (previously 50Mb) connection was registering an average speed of just over 45 (measured by an Ofcom router), I can’t wait to see what this bad boy is capable of now.
400kps download speed so i guess around 3mbps here, hoping for atleast 6mbps…and this is a new area too
I have a house full of 7 adults and a connection speed that is 0.25 Mb/s to 0.5 at very very rare absolute peeks. taking into account i’m in central london and people in the country complain when they have less than 1Mb and the goverment says they want us all to have at least 2!!! its laughable
20Mbps down 1Mbps up……. you mad bro ?
No. No I am not.
ooo ok then……
and at work 30Mbps down 30Mbps up …. you still mad bro ?
At home I have a 100mb connection, at work we are stuck with 0.5mb. And they wonder why I prefer to work at home. Downloading a 3gb file at work takes over 3 hours, at home less than 3 minutes.
Its rediculous.
The first thing I checked on my last 2 house moves was if it was in a cable area.
*I do work for VMB so it’s crazy cheap but I couldn’t live somewhere without at least a solid 10mbps