If you've ever cursed the slowness of your broadband, then be grateful for small mercies - at least you don't live in St David's Close in Worksop.
(If you do live in live in St David's Close in Worksop, then you should look away now.)
Because the close in the Nottinghamshire town has the fifth worst broadband speed out of all the streets in the whole of the UK.
With average download speeds of 0.290 Mbps, it would take 49 hours and 22 minutes to download a two-hour film from Netflix.
By contrast, on the the UK's fastest street, the same film would take just four minutes to download.
Slowest streets for broadband in the UK
Rank | Street Name and Location | Average download speed (mbps) |
1 | Greenmeadows Park, Bamfurlong, Gloucestershire | 0.143 |
2 | Poplar Avenue, Oldham, Greater Manchester | 0.221 |
3 | Chesham Road, Wilmslow, Cheshire | 0.249 |
4 | Cynghordy, Llandovery, Ceredigion | 0.267 |
5 | St David's Close, Worksop, Nottinghamshire | 0.290 |
6 | Broomhall, Worcester, Worcestershire | 0.291 |
7 | Milton Road, Cowplain, Hampshire | 0.338 |
8 | Shaw Lane, Doncaster, South Yorkshire | 0.352 |
9 | Cross Lane, Bebington, Merseyside | 0.354 |
10 | Pennant, Llanbrynmair, Powys | 0.388 |
The slowest broadband in the UK, with an average download speed of 0.14Mbps, is found on Greenmeadows Park in Bamfurlong, Gloucestershire, according to the latest consumer speed tests collected by uSwitch.com, the price comparison and switching service.
It has average speeds that are 1,899 times slower than the UK’s fastest street, Abdon Avenue in Birmingham, where average speeds have reached 265.89 Mbps over the past year.
According to the research, which is based on more than 279,186 ‘real world’ speed tests run by broadband users over the last year, the average download speed in the UK is 46.2 Mbps.
However, a quarter of streets (26.3 percent) struggle with speeds of less than 10Mbps, while one in eight (13.3 percent) crawl along at less than 5Mbps.
Nearly a third of users (31 percent) now get speeds of 30+ Mbps, up from less than a quarter (22 percent) three years ago.
Fastest streets for broadband in the UK
Rank | Street Name and Location | Average download speed (Mbps) |
1 | Abdon Avenue, Birmingham, West Midlands | 265.891 |
2 | Redwell Grove, Kings Hill, West Malling, Kent | 178.385 |
3 | Darwin Street, Livingston, West Lothian | 164.235 |
4 | Derbeth Grange, Kingswells, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire | 156.481 |
5 | Derby Road, Duffield, Belper, Derbyshire | 153.138 |
6 | Chatsworth Road, Swindon, Wiltshire | 145.027 |
7 | Limeharbour, Isle of Dogs, London | 143.409 |
8 | Clifton Drive, Sprotbrough, Doncaster, South Yorkshire | 142.545 |
9 | Feldspar Close, Sittingbourne, Kent | 141.451 |
10 | Mackenzie Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire | 136.086 |
Dani Warner, broadband expert at uSwitch.com, said: “This research lays bare the extent of the UK’s digital divide. Streets that are relatively close geographically can be light years apart when it comes to the download speeds they are getting.
“Awareness of fibre broadband availability continues to be the biggest hurdle to people getting faster download speeds. 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. And for those who can’t yet obtain faster speeds - which the industry is directly aiming to address with the rollout of full-fibre - improvements really can’t come soon enough."
You can test your broadband speeds and compare results to other local users with different providers here.
