We review products independently, but we may earn affiliate commissions from buying links on this page. Terms of use. uSwitch has announced that there is nearly a 2000-times difference between the fastest broadband connection and the slowest one in the UK. According to the survey, which was based on 279,000 real-world speed tests by the public, homes on Greenmeadows Park had a download speed of just 0.14 megabits per second - compared to a speed of 265.89Mbps on Abdon Avenue in Birmingham, reports the BBC. For reference, it would take four days for a Greenmeadows Park resident to download a two-hour HD film from Netflix; on Abdon Avenue, that would take less than four minutes. The BBC also notes that the snail-slow internet speeds of the Gloucester street is only a mile away from communications agency GCHQ, which has some of the fastest internet in the country. uSwitch also says that more than a quarter of British homes receive speeds slower than 10Mbps which is, according to communications regulator Ofcom, the minimum requirement for a "decent browsing experience;" just over 13% can't break 5Mbps. Broadband expert at uSwitch Dani Warner said that "over a third of the slowest streets have access to superfast speeds, so people living there have no need to be crawling along on completely unusable internet services...the industry should be doing more to help consumers understand what sort of broadband they can get at home." This is because streets in Oldham in Manchester and Wilmslow in Cheshire - which came second and third in the list of slowest locations - both have access to superfast broadband, suggesting that customers do not know that better options are available. However, uSwitch's competitor Thinkbroadband has suggested the company might be focusing too much on misleading anomalies. Thinkbroadband has created its own map of the country, and criticised uSwitch for recording speeds that are faster than any local service could provide. "They need to distinguish between slow streets and streets that are slow because no-one has upgraded," commented Thinkbroadbrand's editor Andrew Ferguson to the BBC.
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We review products independently, but we may earn affiliate commissions from buying links on this page. Terms of use. uSwitch has announced that there is nearly a 2000-times difference between the fastest broadband connection and the slowest one in the UK. According to the survey, which was based on 279,000 real-world speed tests by the public, homes on Greenmeadows Park had a download speed of just 0.14 megabits per second - compared to a speed of 265.89Mbps on Abdon Avenue in Birmingham, reports the BBC. For reference, it would take four days for a Greenmeadows Park resident to download a two-hour HD film from Netflix; on Abdon Avenue, that would take less than four minutes. The BBC also notes that the snail-slow internet speeds of the Gloucester street is only a mile away from communications agency GCHQ, which has some of the fastest internet in the country. uSwitch also says that more than a quarter of British homes receive speeds slower than 10Mbps which is, according to communications regulator Ofcom, the minimum requirement for a "decent browsing experience;" just over 13% can't break 5Mbps. Broadband expert at uSwitch Dani Warner said that "over a third of the slowest streets have access to superfast speeds, so people living there have no need to be crawling along on completely unusable internet services...the industry should be doing more to help consumers understand what sort of broadband they can get at home." This is because streets in Oldham in Manchester and Wilmslow in Cheshire - which came second and third in the list of slowest locations - both have access to superfast broadband, suggesting that customers do not know that better options are available. However, uSwitch's competitor Thinkbroadband has suggested the company might be focusing too much on misleading anomalies. Thinkbroadband has created its own map of the country, and criticised uSwitch for recording speeds that are faster than any local service could provide. "They need to distinguish between slow streets and streets that are slow because no-one has upgraded," commented Thinkbroadbrand's editor Andrew Ferguson to the BBC.