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Ten slowest and ten fastest Scots streets for broadband revealed - see how your area compares
01.12.2021 - 04:05 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A Scots street with the slowest broadband speed would have to spend 41 hours download a two hour HD film, a new study has found.
Grant Road in Banchory, Aberdeenshire has been named as having the slowest download speeds of any street in Scotland.
Average download speeds reached a snail’s pace of 0.28mbps, according to consumer magazine USwitch.
The sluggish speeds found on this street are a staggering 2,375 times slower than the street with Scotland’s fastest broadband speeds.
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