Broadband not quick enough in over a quarter of UK homes C report

More over a quarter of UK homes lack quick enough broadband to manage a typical family’s internet needs, such as downloading films and watching series on Netflix, in line with research.

Just over 26% in the UK’s estimated 28 million households are receiving by on speeds of fewer than 10Mbps, the extent the media regulator, Ofcom, says would be the smallest amount desire for today’s household.

The street together with the slowest broadband speed in great britan is Greenmeadows Park in Bamfurlong, Gloucestershire, where residents have average download speeds of just 0.14Mbps.

At that speed may well take above 100 hours to download a two-hour HD film on Netflix, or almost 40 hours for any 45-minute High definition tv show, as per the latest consumer speed test report through the price comparison site uSwitch.com.

“This research lays bare the extent within the UK’s digital divide,” said Dani Warner, a broadband expert at uSwitch. “Streets which have been relatively close geographically is usually light years apart when it comes to the download speeds they are really getting.”

The report noted geographic trends. Nine with the streets with all the slowest broadband were in South and north Yorkshire, Teeside, Manchester and across Scotland. Five from the streets while using fastest broadband were in south-west England.

The report found out that numerous households surveyed didn’t really need to be stuck during the digital slow lane. Round the UK’s slowest areas for broadband, 35% of residents have the option of getting superfast broadband but you’re either unaware that a better services available or not upgrade.

“Awareness has long been the most important hurdle to individuals getting faster download speeds,” said Warner. “On more than a third with the slowest streets everyone has no requirement to be crawling along on completely unusable internet services.”

The report estimates that the average broadband data transfer rate throughout the UK is 46Mbps, and found the proportion of homes upgrading to faster services is growing. Nearly one third of users get speeds of 30Mbps or more, up from 22% several years ago.

Ofcom says there are approximately 1.A million “forgotten homes” that cannot access the ideal minimum speed of 10Mbps.

The government has promised all homes and businesses will have a right in law to demand the means to access services offering speeds that is at least 10Mbps by 2020. Broadband providers will face a legitimate requirement to provide this minimum standard to anyone requesting it, controlled by an expense threshold.