SCOTTISH villages hold the titles for both fastest and slowest internet connection speeds in the UK, according to a new study.
used 12 months of data and hundreds of thousands of connection speed tests to compile its rankings of the best and worst internet speeds in the UK.
Lochwinnoch, in Renfrewshire, was found to have the fastest broadband speed, with an average connection speed of 409Mb.Three English towns – Pudsey on 241.6Mb, Wooler on 225.1Mb, and Middlewich on 223Mb – made up the remainder of the top five fastest recorded speeds in the UK.At the opposite end of the scale, the Scottish village of Halkirk, in Caithness, was found to have the slowest broadband speeds in the UK, clocking in at an average of 2.8Mb.
The Scots town of Lockerbie came second to last, recording an average speed of 6.5Mb. Also featuring in the bottom five was Laurencekirk, in the North East, which came fifth from last with 12.3Mb. The English towns of Ringwood in Hampshire and Longhope in Gloucestershire made up the bottom five in the rankings., 10Mb is the minimum “decent connection” homes and businesses should receive, enabling multiple users to browse the internet and use streaming services. Below this, people are entitled to request an upgrade.
Broadband Genie’s speed index found that the average speed across the UK was 69.4Mb. However, five of Scotland’s cities – Dunfermline , Stirling , Aberdeen , Perth , and Inverness – recorded lower than this.Superfast broadband is defined as speeds faster than 30Mbps, and ultrafast as quicker than 100Mbps.
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