Street in Surrey has the slowest broadband speed in the UK

Another part of Surrey has some of the fastest

Author: Grace McGachyPublished 3rd Dec 2020

The UK's worst street for broadband speeds is over five thousand times slower than the fastest.

Queens Road in Weybridge has the most sluggish connection - with 0-point-12 megabits per second.

Dale Lane in Appleton, Cheshire, comes out on top achieving average speeds of 639.67Mbps.

What does this mean?

Residents of Queens Road would have to wait approximately 119 hours to download a two-hour high definition film, while Dale Lane's inhabitants could expect it within about a minute and 20 seconds.

York Road in Guildford made the top 10 fastest streets in 2020.

It ranked sixth with 352.67Mbps

Uswitch.com conducted the research based on some 398,973 'real world'' speed tests run by broadband users over the last year.

The comparison site fears that the digital divide could be growing deeper as the fastest street was only 830 times quicker than the slowest in its 2019 analysis.

Ernest Doku, broadband expert at Uswitch.com said:

"It's interesting to see that the North claims the fastest street this year, while the slowest street is in the south east, showing that the speed of your connection has nothing to do with where you live.

"It's great that more of us are enjoying ultra-fast broadband, but we don't want to see large swathes of the country left behind on shoddy connections that aren't suitable for modern life.''

"With millions of us working from home and watching more streaming TV at the moment, a good broadband connection is more important than ever,'' Doku continued.

"One of the biggest obstacles stopping people from getting faster downloads speeds is the lack of awareness regarding superfast and ultra-fast broadband.

"Of the ten slowest streets, seven could have access to faster broadband, so we urge residents there - and anyone else unhappy with their broadband speeds - to do a quick check online to see what speeds they could be getting.''

The slowest streets in 2020:

  1. Queens Road, Weybridge, Surrey - 0.12Mbps
  1. Hatchett Road, Feltham, Hounslow, London - 0.38Mbps
  1. Monkton, Devon - 0.45Mbps
  1. Church Street, Great Maplestead, Halstead, Essex - 0.47Mbps
  1. Limmer Close, Wokingham, Berkshire - 0.48Mbps
  1. Waterley Bottom, North Nibley, Dursley, Gloucestershire - 0.49Mbps
  1. Spencer Road, Caterham, Surrey - 0.55Mbps
  1. Ringhaddy Road, Killinchy, Newtownards, Northern Ireland - 0.62Mbps
  1. Fishtoft Drove, Frithville, Boston, Lincolnshire - 0.66Mbps
  1. Sopwith Crescent, Wimborne, Dorset - 0.67Mbps

The fastest streets in 2020:

  1. Dale Lane, Appleton, Warrington, Cheshire - 639.67Mbps
  1. Longhedge, Caldecotte, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire - 568.18Mbps
  1. Old Ballynahinch Road, Lisburn, Northern Ireland - 563.85Mbps
  1. Montvale Gardens, Leicester, Leicestershire - 452.02Mbps
  1. Mill Close, Henlow, Bedfordshire- 360.59Mbps
  1. York Road, Guildford, Surrey - 352.67Mbps
  1. Chapel Road, Oldbury-on-Severn, Gloucestershire - 284.92Mbps
  1. Woodcroft Road, Liverpool, Merseyside - 282.21Mbps
  1. Cairn Wynd, Inverurie, Scotland - 276.40Mbps
  1. Sandy Hamilton Place, Inverurie, Scotland - 253.17Mbps