If you think your home broadband connection is slow, spare a thought for anyone who lives on the UK streets with the very worst internet speeds.New data from comparison firm Broadband Genie has named the ten streets in the country with the very slowest broadband speeds.Bad luck if you reside on Heol-Y-Fedw in the village of Cymmer, Port Talbot, Wales.This street was deemed to have the very slowest broadband in Britain with an average download speed of 0.81 Mbps.
Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT Read more: UK broadband boost - EE dishes out ultimate Wi-Fi upgrade at 'lowest ever' price Read more: Virgin Media offers popular broadband bundles at their lowest ever prices That’s too slow to stream Netflix or Disney+, and it would take you more than 15 hours to download Disney’s Aladdin to watch offline, according to Broadband Genie.This makes Heol-Y-Fedw’s speeds 1,494 slower than the UK’s fastest street for broadband, which is Inglewood Avenue in Derby, with average download speeds of 1.21 Gbps - fast enough to download Aladdin in 38 seconds.Broadband Genie collated data from 145,926 speeds tests of UK broadband to determine which streets were the most sluggish.Article continues below ADVERTISEMENTThe second slowest street for broadband in the country is Turnberry Crescent, Bridge of Don, Aberdeen with 1.06 Mbps, followed by Wesley Street, Maesteg (1.45 Mbps), Occupation Lane, Broadholme, Lincoln (1.63 Mbps) and London’s slowest street Rossister Road (1.74 Mbps).Article continues below ADVERTISEMENTStreets in Chester, Langley, Newport, Hurley and Pontypridd rounded off the top ten, none of whom exceeded average speeds of 2.8 Mbps.
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Read our Privacy PolicyGet More of Our News on GoogleSet Daily Express as a 'Preferred Source' to get quicker access to the news you value.Along with Inglewood Avenue in Derby, only three other streets achieved average download speeds of more than 1 Gbps, with Moatview Park in Belfast, Reynolds Avenue in Romford and Sarum Close in Salisbury making the grade.In its findings, Broadband Genie noted that all ten of the slowest streets have access to Fibre to the Cabinet broadband (FTTC) that could provide residents with speeds of about 35 Mbps if they used the service.The UK is still going through its rollout of fibre broadband, led by BT-owned Openreach, which is targeting connecting 25 million properties to faster connections by December 2026.Openreach’s network is tapped into by BT and BT-owned EE to provide broadband services, as well as many other competitors such as TalkTalk, Plusnet, Sky and Vodafone.Martin Lewis explains money saving broadband tip Though you can test to see fi you can improve your current Wi-Fi speeds by moving your router or updating the software of your devices or web browsers, this doesn’t always help if the connection itself is inherently slow.
If you are not satisfied with your broadband connection, you have the option to switch to another provider.“No one should have to put up with sluggish broadband, it’s an essential utility we rely on for essential services, work, education, social interaction and much more,” said Alex Tofts, broadband expert at Broadband Genie.
