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Although the UK has always lagged behind other nations when it comes to average download speeds, there are areas where it is better than others. London of course enjoys some of the highest speeds in the country, but what about the worst? If you live in Wales, big chunks of the south west or the north west, you're probably languishing compared to the rest.
The average connection speed in areas like the capital, Middlesbrough and Bournemouth is upwards of 45Mbps, with other cities like Birmingham, Nottingham and Liverpool also enjoying high connection speeds. However if you move into more rural areas like Devon, mid and western wales and specifically around the Lake District, the average is a much less impressive 17Mbps.
Source: James Titcomb
These figures come from Ofcom's Connect Nations 2015 report (via Telegraph), which paints the overall national average speed as just under 30Mbps, even though some areas have access to connection rates as high as 200Mbps.
Because many areas in the UK, even built up ones still have sub-standard connection speeds, the report has prompted a number of MPs to petition for BT to be separated from its OpenReach platform in order to facilitate a faster roll out of high-speed services around the country.
The government has previously pledged to make sure everyone in the UK can connect at upwards of 24Mbps by 2020, with several hundred thousand homes equipped for 300-500Mbps by the end of that year.
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KitGuru Says: What's the connection speed like in your area? We only received access to fiber in the last few months, but even with a pricey plan it's still sub 50Mbps.
Glasgow area, 2-3 miles from city center. Best option here is ADSL2+ or LLU equivalent, which gets a sync speed of about 13mbps at the very best (throughput obviously quite a bit lower). While Fiber is very much active on this exchange, BT are very selective about which cabinets are actually upgraded – presumably based on expected return for the investment on each cabinet. No option of cable either; SuperFast Broadband will be glacial in arriving here it seems.
no complaints here, i live in that isolated red section at the mouth of the river humber. the infrastructure is only 20 odd years old . originally it was diamond media then taken over by ntl then taken over by virgin
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/5071011947
My BT (Plusnet) speed is 6.5 Mbps. Virgin cable is available, BT FTTC is not.
i only have 3Mb/s download and 0.33Mbp/s upload so stop complaining about your 16Mbp/s down and upload speed you spoiled people
I live in rural northern ireland and for what we pay each month the download speed is 350kps. No joke.
209Mbps B| 😀
20-25mbps was the max on my city(somewere on canada) like almost a year ago, now we got fiber max 50-60 mbps (i got 50down/30up)
7Mb and that is On fibre
no surprises there then- even if you can get fibre the crosstalk issue is reducing speeds even more because cheapskates at openreach only do the bare minimum, shame that they didnt glass the whole country like they planned b4 milk snatcher privatised their arse
Got fibre late last year due to a push for better internet in the midlands and have a solid 28mbps but still a lot of places around here including where I work which are below 1mbps. This is the state of my internet less then half a year ago.
Dont Show your ip……